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

Lorenz, R., 2003. Computational mathematics. Full steam ahead-probably. Science 299, 837–838.

A journal article with 2 authors

Murray, J., Segall, P., 2002. Testing time-predictable earthquake recurrence by direct measurement of strain accumulation and release. Nature 419, 287–291.

A journal article with 3 authors

Topper, T.P., Holmer, L.E., Caron, J.-B., 2014. Brachiopods hitching a ride: an early case of commensalism in the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. Sci. Rep. 4, 6704.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kimura, Y., Inoue, T., Yin, F., Tsuzaki, K., 2008. Inverse temperature dependence of toughness in an ultrafine grain-structure steel. Science 320, 1057–1060.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sofronas, A., 2005. Analytical Troubleshooting of Process Machinery and Pressure Vessels. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Urzyczyn, P. (Ed.), 2005. Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications: 7th International Conference, TLCA 2005, Nara, Japan, April 21-23, 2005. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Devonshire-Ellis, C., Scott, A., Woollard, S., 2011. Acquisition, in: Devonshire-Ellis, C., Scott, A., Woollard, S. (Eds.), Mergers & Acquisitions in China. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 33–36.

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

Luntz, S., 2014. Editing the Human Genome One Letter At A Time [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1989. Information Management: Issues Important to Farmers Home Administration Systems Modernization (No. IMTEC-89-64). 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

Valenzuela, B.D., 2013. Thirty-Year-Old Mulberry Field (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2008. Justices to Weigh Search and Consent. New York Times A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lorenz, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Lorenz, 2003; Murray and Segall, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Murray and Segall, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Kimura et al., 2008)

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