How to format your references using the Journal of Financial Intermediation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Financial Intermediation. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Haldeman, J., 2000. Brochure. The apocalypse: a great day out for the whole family. Nature 405, 401.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, M., Yan, X., 2005. Comment on “Grain boundary-mediated plasticity in nanocrystalline nickel.” Science 308, 356; author reply 356.

A journal article with 3 authors

Domínguez-García, V., Pigolotti, S., Muñoz, M.A., 2014. Inherent directionality explains the lack of feedback loops in empirical networks. Sci. Rep. 4, 7497.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, S., White, B.J., Sanderson, M.W., Amrine, D.E., Ilany, A., Lanzas, C., 2014. Highly dynamic animal contact network and implications on disease transmission. Sci. Rep. 4, 4472.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Clayton, L.A., 2010. Bartolomé de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Brasseur, G.P., 2005. Aeronomy of the Middle Atmosphere: Chemistry and Physics of the Stratosphere and Mesosphere, Third revised and enlarged edition. ed, Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Gurudev, N., Florek, M., Corbeil, D., Knust, E., 2013. Prominent Role of Prominin in the Retina, in: Corbeil, D. (Ed.), Prominin-1 (CD133): New Insights on Stem & Cancer Stem Cell Biology, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 55–71.

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 Financial Intermediation.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2016. Why Cold Viruses Don’t Like It Warm [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2015. Results-Oriented Management: OPM Needs to Do More to Ensure Meaningful Distinctions Are Made in SES Ratings and Performance Awards (No. GAO-15-189). 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

Rahmani, M., 2017. On the calculation of time-domain impulse-response of systems from band-limited scattering-parameters using wavelet transform (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Leland, J., 2017. Acting on Broadway, Sleeping on His Couch. New York Times MB2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Haldeman, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Chen and Yan, 2005; Haldeman, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Chen and Yan, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Financial Intermediation
ISSN (print)	1042-9573
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance