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

Bartlett, S. D. (2014). Quantum computing: powered by magic. Nature, 510(7505), 345–347.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hla, T., & Im, D.-S. (2009). Cell biology. The ABCs of lipophile transport. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5916), 883–884.

A journal article with 3 authors

Touboul, M., Puchtel, I. S., & Walker, R. J. (2015). Tungsten isotopic evidence for disproportional late accretion to the Earth and Moon. Nature, 520(7548), 530–533.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Tonello, F., Seveso, M., Marin, O., Mock, M., & Montecucco, C. (2002). Screening inhibitors of anthrax lethal factor. Nature, 418(6896), 386.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saunders, A., & Allen, L. (2010). Credit Risk Management in and Out of the Financial Crisis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hull, R., Mendling, J., & Tai, S. (Eds.). (2010). Business Process Management: 8th International Conference, BPM 2010, Hoboken, NJ, USA, September 13-16, 2010. Proceedings (Vol. 6336). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, J., Chen, J., & Wang, S. (2011). Dynamic Inventory Management with Cash Flow Constraints. In J. Chen & S. Wang (Eds.), Risk Management of Supply and Cash Flows in Supply Chains (pp. 105–125). Springer.

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

Fang, J. (2014, April 29). Make Your Own Droplet Microscope Lens for a Penny. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/make-your-own-droplet-microscope-lens-penny/

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. (1973). Effectiveness and Administration of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (088970). 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

Roache, R. S. (2015). Missouri Public School Teachers’ Perception of Tenure [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood 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

Gustines, G. G. (2011, February 11). Warming Up to a Cold Run. New York Times, C33.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bartlett, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bartlett, 2014; Hla & Im, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Hla & Im, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Tonello et al., 2002)

About the journal

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