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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Spoor, F., 2015. Palaeoanthropology: The middle Pliocene gets crowded. Nature 521, 432–433.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nandagopal, N., Elowitz, M.B., 2011. Synthetic biology: integrated gene circuits. Science 333, 1244–1248.

A journal article with 3 authors

West, S.A., Pen, I., Griffin, A.S., 2002. Cooperation and competition between relatives. Science 296, 72–75.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pighin, J.A., Zheng, H., Balakshin, L.J., Goodman, I.P., Western, T.L., Jetter, R., Kunst, L., Samuels, A.L., 2004. Plant cuticular lipid export requires an ABC transporter. Science 306, 702–704.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mihajlovic-Madzarevic, V., 2010. Clinical Trials Audit Preparation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gigliotti, C. (Ed.), 2009. Leonardo’s Choice: Genetic Technologies and Animals. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Braun, E., Marom, S., 2009. Learning Without Error, in: Hon, G., Schickore, J., Steinle, F. (Eds.), Going Amiss In Experimental Research. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 49–54.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Ceres Is Shown In Most Stunning Detail Ever [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/ceres-shown-most-stunning-detail-ever/ (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, 1995. Amtrak: Information on Subsidies in Thruway Bus Operations (No. RCED-95-138). 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

Pikiewicz, K.A., 2012. I never knew I had expectations until I realized they weren’t going to come true: A grounded theory study of mothering a chronically ill child (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Kelly, M., 1992. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Campaign Memo; Democrat’s Road Tour: Selling the Ticket Retail. New York Times A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Spoor, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Nandagopal and Elowitz, 2011; Spoor, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Nandagopal and Elowitz, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Pighin et al., 2004)

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