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

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

Pace, N.R., 2006. Time for a change. Nature 441, 289.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fitter, A.H., Fitter, R.S.R., 2002. Rapid changes in flowering time in British plants. Science 296, 1689–1691.

A journal article with 3 authors

Luhmann, H.J., Kirischuk, S., Kilb, W., 2014. Comment on “Local impermeant anions establish the neuronal chloride concentration.” Science 345, 1130.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tripathi, S., Rana, R., Kumar, S., Pandey, P., Singh, R.S., Rana, D.S., 2014. Ferromagnetic CaRuO3. Sci. Rep. 4, 3877.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scott, K., 2017. Sustainable and Green Electrochemical Science and Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Field, J., Vasconcelos, V.T. (Eds.), 2009. Coordination Models and Languages: 11th International Conference, COORDINATION 2009, Lisboa, Portugal, June 9-12, 2009. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Leino, O.T., 2012. Untangling Gameplay: An Account of Experience, Activity and Materiality Within Computer Game Play, in: Sageng, J.R., Fossheim, H., Mandt Larsen, T. (Eds.), The Philosophy of Computer Games, Philosophy of Engineering and Technology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 57–75.

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 Multinational Financial Management.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2016. Vast Medieval Cities Discovered Under The Rainforest In Cambodia [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, 2008. Traffic Safety: Grants Generally Address Key Safety Issues, Despite State Eligibility and Management Difficulties (No. GAO-08-398). 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

Cox, E.T., 2012. Prenatal cocaine: Effects on neonatal vocalizations, cue-induced maternal response, and brain development (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Kanter, J., 2017. May Offers a Plan for Europeans to Stay in Britain After Brexit. New York Times A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pace, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Fitter and Fitter, 2002; Pace, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Fitter and Fitter, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Tripathi et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Multinational Financial Management
Abbreviation	J. Multinatl. Financ. Manage.
ISSN (print)	1042-444X
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance