How to format your references using the Journal of International Money and Finance citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of International Money and Finance. 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

Martin, K., 2015. Vernon B. Mountcastle (1918-2015). Nature 518, 304.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marotzke, J., Forster, P.M., 2015. Forcing, feedback and internal variability in global temperature trends. Nature 517, 565–570.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liang, Y., Wu, D., Fu, R., 2013. Carbon microfibers with hierarchical porous structure from electrospun fiber-like natural biopolymer. Sci. Rep. 3, 1119.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stone, M.B., Bernstein, D.P., Barry, R., Pelc, M.D., Tsui, Y.-K., Schiffer, P., 2004. Stress propagation: getting to the bottom of a granular medium. Nature 427, 503–504.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gardi, F., Benoist, T., Darlay, J., Estellon, B., Megel, R., 2014. Mathematical Programming Solver Based on Local Search. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Randall, D., Salembier, P. (Eds.), 2010. From CSCW to Web 2.0: European Developments in Collaborative Design: Selected Papers from COOP08, Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Held, H., 2011. Dealing with Uncertainty – From Climate Research to Integrated Assessment of Policy Options, in: Gramelsberger, G., Feichter, J. (Eds.), Climate Change and Policy: The Calculability of Climate Change and the Challenge of Uncertainty. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 113–126.

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 International Money and Finance.

Blog post

Taub, B., 2016. Hispanic People Experience More Severe Alzheimer’s Symptoms, Claims Study [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/hispanic-people-experience-more-severe-alzheimers-symptoms-claims-study/ (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, 2014. School Meal Programs: Implications of Adjusting Income Eligibility Thresholds and Reimbursement Rates by Geographic Differences (No. GAO-14-557). 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

Escobedo, N.L., 2014. A continuing bonds grief support group for Latinas who have lost a child: A grant proposal (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

Gorman, J., 2017. Naked Mole Rats Survive Without Oxygen. New York Times D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Martin, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Marotzke and Forster, 2015; Martin, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Marotzke and Forster, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Stone et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of International Money and Finance
Abbreviation	J. Int. Money Finance
ISSN (print)	0261-5606
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance