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.

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Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.
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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
Sohn E (2014) Animal models: Dogged pursuit. Nature 515:S172-3
A journal article with 2 authors
Huneycutt AJ, Saykally RJ (2003) Chemistry. Building solutions--one molecule at a time. Science 299:1329–1330
A journal article with 3 authors
Amselem E, Sadiq M, Bourennane M (2013) Experimental bound entanglement through a Pauli channel. Sci Rep 3:1966
A journal article with 5 or more authors
Wada H, Masuda K, Satoh R, et al (2008) Adult T-cell progenitors retain myeloid potential. Nature 452:768–772

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Chen ZN, Chia MYW (2006) Broadband Planar Antennas. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK
An edited book
Abd Manaf A, Zeki A, Zamani M, et al (eds) (2011) Informatics Engineering and Information Science: International Conference, ICIEIS 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 12-14, 2011. Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
A chapter in an edited book
David M, Gollasch S, Elliott B, Wiley C (2015) Ballast Water Management Under the Ballast Water Management Convention. In: David M, Gollasch S (eds) Global Maritime Transport and Ballast Water Management: Issues and Solutions. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 89–108

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
Fang J (2016) Bearded Dragons Can Change The Color Of Specific Body Parts. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bearded-dragons-can-change-the-color-of-specific-body-parts/. 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 (2016) Commercial Space Launch Insurance: Views Differ on Need for Change to Insurance Approach but Clarification Is Needed. 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
Duffy B (2012) Analytical Methods and Perturbation Theory for the Elliptic Restricted Three-Body Problem of Astrodynamics. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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 (2007) Supreme Court Refuses Case Challenging Group’s Designation as Terrorists. New York Times A15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sohn 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Huneycutt and Saykally 2003; Sohn 2014).

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

  • Two authors: (Huneycutt and Saykally 2003)
  • Three or more authors: (Wada et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Economics and Finance
AbbreviationJ. Econ. Fin.
ISSN (print)1055-0925
ISSN (online)1938-9744
ScopeEconomics and Econometrics
Finance

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