How to format your references using the Journal of Corporate Finance citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Corporate Finance. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Zatz, M., 2005. Global voices of science. When science is not enough: fighting genetic disease in Brazil. Science 308, 55–57.

A journal article with 2 authors

Phadnis, N., Orr, H.A., 2009. A single gene causes both male sterility and segregation distortion in Drosophila hybrids. Science 323, 376–379.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lu, D., Searles, M.A., Klug, A., 2003. Crystal structure of a zinc-finger-RNA complex reveals two modes of molecular recognition. Nature 426, 96–100.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nikolov, N., Sing, D.K., Fortney, J.J., Goyal, J.M., Drummond, B., Evans, T.M., Gibson, N.P., De Mooij, E.J.W., Rustamkulov, Z., Wakeford, H.R., Smalley, B., Burgasser, A.J., Hellier, C., Helling, C., Mayne, N.J., Madhusudhan, N., Kataria, T., Baines, J., Carter, A.L., Ballester, G.E., Barstow, J.K., McCleery, J., Spake, J.J., 2018. An absolute sodium abundance for a cloud-free “hot Saturn” exoplanet. Nature 557, 526–529.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG, 2013. MAK- und BAT-Werte-Liste 2013. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Stephens, F.O., 2016. Basics of Oncology. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Nava, S., Fanfulla, F., 2010. Quando iniziare (o meno) il trattamento ventilatorio, in: Fanfulla, F. (Ed.), Ventilazione Meccanica Non Invasiva: Come, Quando e Perché. Springer, Milano, pp. 21–27.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of Corporate Finance.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2016. Filthy Rich? Insects Prefer To Live In Wealthier Houses Research Says [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/filthy-rich-insects-prefer-to-live-in-wealthier-houses-research-says/ (accessed 10.30.18).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office, 2006. Highway Finance: States’ Expanding Use of Tolling Illustrates Diverse Challenges and Strategies (No. GAO-06-554). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Pitron, J.E., 2008. The influence of exemplary followership on organizational performance: A phenomenological approach (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Billard, M., 2010. High Talent At Low Prices. New York Times E4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Zatz, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Phadnis and Orr, 2009; Zatz, 2005).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Phadnis and Orr, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Nikolov et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Corporate Finance
Abbreviation	J. Corp. Fin.
ISSN (print)	0929-1199
Scope	Business and International Management Strategy and Management Economics and Econometrics Finance