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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Science. 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

Bignami, G. F. (2009). Astronomy. Celebrating the 400th anniversary of telescope astronomy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5931), 1149–1150.

A journal article with 2 authors

Saltiel, A. R., & Kahn, C. R. (2001). Insulin signalling and the regulation of glucose and lipid metabolism. Nature, 414(6865), 799–806.

A journal article with 3 authors

Holt, L. J., Krutchinsky, A. N., & Morgan, D. O. (2008). Positive feedback sharpens the anaphase switch. Nature, 454(7202), 353–357.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gorelik, L. Y., Isacsson, A., Galperin, Y. M., Shekhter, R. I., & Jonson, M. (2001). Coherent transfer of Cooper pairs by a movable grain. Nature, 411(6836), 454–457.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Flood, J. M. (2014). Practitioner’s Guide to GAAS 2014. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kreutzmann, H., & Watanabe, T. (Eds.). (2016). Mapping Transition in the Pamirs: Changing Human-Environmental Landscapes (1st ed. 2016). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Chai, K. C., Tay, K. M., & Lim, C. P. (2015). A New Sign Distance-Based Ranking Method for Fuzzy Numbers. In H. Handa, H. Ishibuchi, Y.-S. Ong, & K.-C. Tan (Eds.), Proceedings of the 18th Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems - Volume 2 (pp. 55–64). Springer International Publishing.

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, Finance and Administrative Science.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2017, March 8). Study Finds No Long-Term Effects Of Violent Video Games On Empathy. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/study-finds-no-long-term-effects-of-violent-video-games-on-empathy/

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. (1992). Stafford Student Loans: Lower Subsidy Payments Could Achieve Savings Without Affecting Access (HRD-92-7). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Caraballo-Cole, T. (2012). Mindfulness-based mental health services for single mothers: A grant proposal [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

Hollander, S. (2000, August 31). Bryan Twins End Run of Opening-Round Losses. New York Times, D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bignami, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Bignami, 2009; Saltiel & Kahn, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Saltiel & Kahn, 2001)
Three authors: (Holt et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Gorelik et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Science
ISSN (print)	2077-1886
Scope