How to format your references using the Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences (JEF). 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

Perrin, S., 2014, ‘Preclinical research: Make mouse studies work’, Nature, 507(7493), 423–425.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roberts, R.G. & Brook, B.W., 2010, ‘Paleontology. And then there were none?’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5964), 420–422.

A journal article with 3 authors

Herrmann, B., Thöni, C. & Gächter, S., 2008, ‘Antisocial punishment across societies’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5868), 1362–1367.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ortiz, J.L., Sada, P.V., Bellot Rubio LR, Aceituno, F.J., Aceituno, J., Gutierrez, P.J. & Thiele, U., 2000, ‘Optical detection of meteoroidal impacts on the Moon’, Nature, 405(6789), 921–923.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burnett, R., Brunstrom, A. & Nilsson, A.G., 2005, Perspectives on Multimedia, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Borghese, F., 2007, Scattering from Model Nonspherical Particles: Theory and Applications to Environmental Physics, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Ferrara, P., Fuchs, R. & Juhasz, U., 2012, ‘TVAL+ : TVLA and Value Analyses Together’, in G. Eleftherakis, M. Hinchey & M. Holcombe (eds.), Software Engineering and Formal Methods: 10th International Conference, SEFM 2012, Thessaloniki, Greece, October 1-5, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science., pp. 63–77, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Economic and Financial Sciences.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2016, Researcher Uses CRISPR To Edit DNA Of Healthy Human Embryos In Controversial World First, IFLScience.

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, 2013, America COMPETES Acts: Overall Appropriations Have Increased and Have Mainly Funded Existing Federal Research Entities, 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

Brown, C.P., 2010, Range vs. register: An important distinction in choral repertoire for the adolescent male – PhD thesis, University of Arizona, Tucson, 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

Surico, J., 2017, Queens Woman Killed in Attack by Her Dog, New York Times, p. A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Perrin 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Roberts & Brook 2010; Perrin 2014).

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

Two authors: (Roberts & Brook 2010)
Three or more authors: (Ortiz et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences
ISSN (print)	1995-7076
ISSN (online)	2312-2803
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