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

Vidale, J.E., 2001. Geophysics. Peeling back the layers in Earth’s mantle. Science 294, 313.

A journal article with 2 authors

McInerney, J.O., Pisani, D., 2007. Genetics. Paradigm for life. Science 318, 1390–1391.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lutz, W., Kritzinger, S., Skirbekk, V., 2006. Population. The demography of growing European identity. Science 314, 425.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kim, H.-D., Yun, M.J., Lee, J.H., Kim, K.H., Kim, T.G., 2014. Transparent multi-level resistive switching phenomena observed in ITO/RGO/ITO memory cells by the sol-gel dip-coating method. Sci. Rep. 4, 4614.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rémond, Y., Ahzi, S., Baniassadi, M., Garmestani, H., 2016. Applied RVE Reconstruction and Homogenization of Heterogeneous Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Jeong, H.Y., S. Obaidat, M., Yen, N.Y., Park, J.J. (jong H. (Eds.), 2014. Advances in Computer Science and its Applications: CSA 2013, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Yuan, W., Sickel, W., Yang, D., 2010. Pseudo-Differential Operators, in: Sickel, W., Yang, D. (Eds.), Morrey and Campanato Meet Besov, Lizorkin and Triebel, Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 137–146.

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

Andrews, R., 2017. Ancient Human Sacrifices Found Under Walls Of Korean Castle [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, 1980. Federal Assistance System Should Be Changed To Permit Greater Involvement by State Legislatures (No. GGD-81-3). 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

Wilson, P., 2015. A Case Study of the Efficacy of Middle College on Educational Advancement (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Wallace, A., 2014. At Last. New York Times MM44.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vidale, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (McInerney and Pisani, 2007; Vidale, 2001).

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

Two authors: (McInerney and Pisani, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Kim 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