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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Economics and 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

Parasnis D (2000) Proteins and the naked truth about e-commerce. Nature 403:129–130

A journal article with 2 authors

Ji H, Zweibel E (2015) Plasma physics. Understanding particle acceleration in astrophysical plasmas. Science 347:944–945

A journal article with 3 authors

Pfennig DW, Harcombe WR, Pfennig KS (2001) Frequency-dependent Batesian mimicry. Nature 410:323

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Colmone A, Amorim M, Pontier AL, et al (2008) Leukemic cells create bone marrow niches that disrupt the behavior of normal hematopoietic progenitor cells. Science 322:1861–1865

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Torres-Moreno J-M (2014) Automatic Text Summarization. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Alpay D, Gohberg I (eds) (2006) The State Space Method Generalizations and Applications. Birkhäuser, Basel

A chapter in an edited book

Yoo IS, Reitelshöfer S, Landgraf M, Franke J (2015) Artificial Muscles, Made of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators - A Promising Solution for Inherently Compliant Future Robots. In: Verl A, Albu-Schäffer A, Brock O, Raatz A (eds) Soft Robotics: Transferring Theory to Application. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 33–41

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 Economics and Finance.

Blog post

Davis J (2016) Global Carbon Emissions Plateaued In 2015, According To BP. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1993) Test and Evaluation: DOD Has Been Slow In Improving Testing of Software-Intensive Systems. 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

Briseno AR (2015) Improving school performance through family involvement: A grant project. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Saslow L (2007) If the Pay’s “Confidential,” It Just Disappeared. New York Times 14LI2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Parasnis 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Parasnis 2000; Ji and Zweibel 2015).

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

Two authors: (Ji and Zweibel 2015)
Three or more authors: (Colmone et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Economics and Finance
Abbreviation	J. Econ. Fin.
ISSN (print)	1055-0925
ISSN (online)	1938-9744
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance