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 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

Destler, B., 2008. A new relationship. Nature 453, 853–854.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mudd, J.O., Kass, D.A., 2008. Tackling heart failure in the twenty-first century. Nature 451, 919–928.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, Y.-L., Kinloch, I.A., Windle, A.H., 2004. Direct spinning of carbon nanotube fibers from chemical vapor deposition synthesis. Science 304, 276–278.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hopkins, B.D., Pauli, C., Du, X., Wang, D.G., Li, X., Wu, D., Amadiume, S.C., Goncalves, M.D., Hodakoski, C., Lundquist, M.R., Bareja, R., Ma, Y., Harris, E.M., Sboner, A., Beltran, H., Rubin, M.A., Mukherjee, S., Cantley, L.C., 2018. Suppression of insulin feedback enhances the efficacy of PI3K inhibitors. Nature 560, 499–503.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

The American Ceramic Society, 2009. Progress in Nanotechnology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Wilson, D. (Ed.), 2005. Paediatric Musculoskeletal Disease: With an Emphasis on Ultrasound, Medical Radiology, Diagnostic Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Herkenhoff, L., Fogli, J., 2013. Normal Distributions, in: Fogli, J. (Ed.), Applied Statistics for Business and Management Using Microsoft Excel. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 79–116.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. New York State has Banned Fracking [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, 1999. Acquisition Reform: NASA’s Internet Service Improves Access to Contracting Information (No. NSIAD-99-37). 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

Sweeney, D.L., 2009. Learning in human -dolphin interactions at zoological facilities (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

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

Kelly, K., Davis, J.H., 2017. Lawsuit Challenges the Secrecy of White House Advisers on Infrastructure. New York Times A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Destler, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Destler, 2008; Mudd and Kass, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Mudd and Kass, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Hopkins et al., 2018)

About the journal

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