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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Financial Markets. 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

Balents, L., 2010. Spin liquids in frustrated magnets. Nature 464, 199–208.

A journal article with 2 authors

Canup, R.M., Asphaug, E., 2001. Origin of the Moon in a giant impact near the end of the Earth’s formation. Nature 412, 708–712.

A journal article with 3 authors

Budday, S., Raybaud, C., Kuhl, E., 2014. A mechanical model predicts morphological abnormalities in the developing human brain. Sci. Rep. 4, 5644.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Man, W., Megens, M., Steinhardt, P.J., Chaikin, P.M., 2005. Experimental measurement of the photonic properties of icosahedral quasicrystals. Nature 436, 993–996.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scheer, J., 2010. Failed Bridges. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Padula, F., 2015. Advances in Robust Fractional Control. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Sherman, C.H., Butler, J.L., 2007. Transducers as Hydrophones, in: Butler, J.L. (Ed.), Transducers and Arrays for Underwater Sound. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 152–212.

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 Markets.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. North America To Scale On Various Planets In Our Solar System [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/universe-north-american-scale/ (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, 2011. Airport and Airway Trust Fund: Declining Balance Raises Concerns over Ability to Meet Future Demands (No. GAO-11-358T). 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

Morikawa, T., 2010. Aerodynamic analysis of an over-the-wing engine-mount aircraft (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Koblin, J., 2017. For HBO, Storm Clouds Gather Over What Should Be a Smashing Summer. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Balents, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Balents, 2010; Canup and Asphaug, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Canup and Asphaug, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Man et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Financial Markets
Abbreviation	J. Fin. Mark.
ISSN (print)	1386-4181
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance