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

Kirchner, J.W. Evolutionary Speed Limits Inferred from the Fossil Record. Nature 2002, 415, 65–68.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vinnikov, K.Y.; Grody, N.C. Global Warming Trend of Mean Tropospheric Temperature Observed by Satellites. Science 2003, 302, 269–272.

A journal article with 3 authors

Benton, M.J.; Wills, M.A.; Hitchin, R. Quality of the Fossil Record through Time. Nature 2000, 403, 534–537.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, L.; Gu, Q.; Zhou, X.; Lee, S.; Xia, Y.; Liu, Z. New-Concept Batteries Based on Aqueous Li+/Na+ Mixed-Ion Electrolytes. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 1946.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ruckmongathan, T.N. Addressing Techniques of Liquid Crystal Displays; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2014; ISBN 9781118706398.

An edited book

Biological and Medical Data Analysis: 7th International Symposium, ISBMDA 2006, Thessaloniki, Greece, December 7-8, 2006. Proceedings; Maglaveras, N., Chouvarda, I., Koutkias, V., Brause, R., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006; Vol. 4345; ISBN 9783540680635.

A chapter in an edited book

Duhovnik, J.; Demšar, I.; Drešar, P. 3D-Modelling Software Packages. In Space Modeling with SolidWorks and NX; Demsar, I., Drešar, P., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; pp. 71–96 ISBN 9783319038612.

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

Hamilton, K. The History Of Planet Detection In One 60 Second GIF Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/history-planet-detection-60-second-gif/ (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 Electronic Prescribing: CMS Should Address Inconsistencies in Its Two Incentive Programs That Encourage the Use of Health Information Technology; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2011;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dobbs, J. The Potential Use of PEI Modified Biochar for Different Environmental Applications. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University: Mississippi State, MS, 2017.

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

Schmitt, E. U.S. Says Its ISIS Fight Isn’t Raising Civilian Risks. New York Times 2017, A5.

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