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

Bates, G.P., 2006. BIOMEDICINE: One Misfolded Protein Allows Others to Sneak By. Science 311, 1385–1386.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eichler, E.E., Sankoff, D., 2003. Structural dynamics of eukaryotic chromosome evolution. Science 301, 793–797.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hayes, D., Griffin, G.B., Engel, G.S., 2013. Engineering coherence among excited states in synthetic heterodimer systems. Science 340, 1431–1434.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Terenzio, M., Koley, S., Samra, N., Rishal, I., Zhao, Q., Sahoo, P.K., Urisman, A., Marvaldi, L., Oses-Prieto, J.A., Forester, C., Gomes, C., Kalinski, A.L., Di Pizio, A., Doron-Mandel, E., Perry, R.B.-T., Koppel, I., Twiss, J.L., Burlingame, A.L., Fainzilber, M., 2018. Locally translated mTOR controls axonal local translation in nerve injury. Science 359, 1416–1421.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scott, D.M., 2009. World Wide Rave. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Popper, A.N., Hawkins, A. (Eds.), 2012. The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Bertelsen, A., 2011. Irving Gottesman and the Schizophrenia Spectrum, in: Ritsner, M.S. (Ed.), Handbook of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Volume I: Conceptual Issues and Neurobiological Advances. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 115–125.

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

Fang, J., 2014. Visualizing 13 Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution [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, 1997. Transportation Issue Area: Active Assignments (No. AA-97-18(3)). 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

Satterlee, R.T., 2009. A case study of undergraduate student employment at a private university: Exploring the effects of social class and institutional context (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Vecsey, G., 2011. Mets Thank Troops In a Meaningful Setting. New York Times B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bates, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Bates, 2006; Eichler and Sankoff, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Eichler and Sankoff, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Terenzio et al., 2018)

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