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

Renner, S.S., 2011. Evolution. Living fossil younger than thought. Science 334, 766–767.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kwon, H.-B., Sabatini, B.L., 2011. Glutamate induces de novo growth of functional spines in developing cortex. Nature 474, 100–104.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sudhakar, Y.A., Verma, R.K., Pawar, S.C., 2014. Type IV collagen α1-chain noncollagenous domain blocks MMP-2 activation both in-vitro and in-vivo. Sci. Rep. 4, 4136.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rivlin, M., Horev, J., Tsarfaty, I., Navon, G., 2013. Molecular imaging of tumors and metastases using chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) MRI. Sci. Rep. 3, 3045.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fleming, P., Lee, R., 2016. Orthodontic Functional Appliances. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Fisher, R.B., Chen-Burger, Y.-H., Giordano, D., Hardman, L., Lin, F.-P. (Eds.), 2016. Fish4Knowledge: Collecting and Analyzing Massive Coral Reef Fish Video Data, 1st ed. 2016. ed, Intelligent Systems Reference Library. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Chaloupek, G., 2012. Emancipation of the Peasantry in Lower Austria: The Economists’ Views, the Role of the Estates, and the Revolution of 1848, in: Backhaus, J.G. (Ed.), The Liberation of the Serfs: The Economics of Unfree Labor. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 19–31.

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

Luntz, S., 2016. Gene Found That Harms Males, Not Females [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/gene-found-that-harms-males-not-females/ (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, 2000. GAO Report on Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes (No. AIMD-00-81R). 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

Reece, J.K., 2017. Reservoir Facies Analysis of Middle Miocene Turbidites in Marlin, Dorado, and Nile Fields; Viosca Knoll, Deepwater Gulf of Mexico (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Wagner, J., 2017. Bullpen Surrenders Wheeler’s Lead, but the Mets Prevail. New York Times B15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Renner, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Kwon and Sabatini, 2011; Renner, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Kwon and Sabatini, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Rivlin et al., 2013)

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