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

Mervis, J., 2000. 2001 BUDGET: Spending Bills Show No Sign of Surplus--Yet. Science 289, 31.

A journal article with 2 authors

Campbell, C.T., Peden, C.H.F., 2005. Chemistry. Oxygen vacancies and catalysis on ceria surfaces. Science 309, 713–714.

A journal article with 3 authors

Herne, M.C., Nair, J.P., Salisbury, S.W., 2010. Comment on “A southern tyrant reptile.” Science 329, 1013; author reply 1013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sánchez-Lavega, A., del Río-Gaztelurrutia, T., Hueso, R., Gómez-Forrellad, J.M., Sanz-Requena, J.F., Legarreta, J., García-Melendo, E., Colas, F., Lecacheux, J., Fletcher, L.N., Barrado-Navascués, D., Parker, D., International Outer Planet Watch Team, 2011. Deep winds beneath Saturn’s upper clouds from a seasonal long-lived planetary-scale storm. Nature 475, 71–74.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moll, W., Moll, A., 2011. Schallschutz im Wohnungsbau. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Banavar, R.N., 2006. Switched Finite Time Control of a Class of Underactuated Systems, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Hart, S.G.E., 2006. Safety Pharmacology of Drugs for the Urinary Tract, in: Vogel, H.G., Hock, F.J., Maas, J., Mayer, D. (Eds.), Drug Discovery and Evaluation: Safety and Pharmacokinetic Assays. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 95–140.

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

Hale, T., 2017. Discovery Of Oldest Croc Eggs Date From 152 Million Years Ago [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, 1976. Contract Award by the Federal Power Commission for Developing and Installing a Regulatory Information System (No. RED-76-59). 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

Ramos, C.M., 2017. Is this working? A study on measuring the effectiveness of efforts to diversify the theatre management 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

Wagner, J., 2017. Questions Add to Drumbeat of Mets Injuries. New York Times B8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mervis, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Campbell and Peden, 2005; Mervis, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Campbell and Peden, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Sánchez-Lavega et al., 2011)

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