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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Risk and 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Garner, E.C. GE Prize Essay. Understanding a Minimal DNA-Segregating Machine. Science 2008, 322, 1486–1487.

A journal article with 2 authors

de Groot, B.L.; Grubmüller, H. Water Permeation across Biological Membranes: Mechanism and Dynamics of Aquaporin-1 and GlpF. Science 2001, 294, 2353–2357.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chandra, F.A.; Buzi, G.; Doyle, J.C. Glycolytic Oscillations and Limits on Robust Efficiency. Science 2011, 333, 187–192.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ghosh, A.; Praefcke, G.J.K.; Renault, L.; Wittinghofer, A.; Herrmann, C. How Guanylate-Binding Proteins Achieve Assembly-Stimulated Processive Cleavage of GTP to GMP. Nature 2006, 440, 101–104.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Luo, A.C.J.; Guo, Y. Vibro-Impact Dynamics; John Wiley & Sons Ltd: Oxford, UK, 2013; ISBN 9781118402924.

An edited book

The Life Cycle of Psychological Ideas: Understanding Prominence and the Dynamics of Intellectual Change; Dalton, T.C., Evans, R.B., Eds.; Path in Psychology; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2005; ISBN 9780306479984.

A chapter in an edited book

Marasinghe, M.G.; Kennedy, W.J. Statistical Analysis of Regression Models. In SAS for Data Analysis: Intermediate Statistical Methods; Kennedy, W.J., Ed.; Statistics and Computing; Springer: New York, NY, 2008; pp. 1–87 ISBN 9780387773711.

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 Risk and Financial Management.

Blog post

Hale, T. Scientists Are Exploring One Of The Deepest, Most Mysterious Parts Of The Ocean In A Submarine Right Now, And You Can Watch Live Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/you-can-watch-scientists-explore-mariana-trench-live/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 Digital Television Transition: Questions on Administrative Costs of an Equipment Subsidy Program; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2005;

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Ho, C.W. Music Genre on the Move: Discourse and the Cultural Production of Japanese Visual Rock in Hong Kong. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University: Bloomington, IN, 2012.

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

Wines, M. Fearing Hackers, States Upgrade Voting Systems. New York Times 2017, A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Risk and Financial Management
Abbreviation	J. Risk Fin. Manag.
ISSN (online)	1911-8074
Scope