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

Carpenter, S. Science Careers. Carving a Career in Translational Research. Science 2007, 317, 966–967.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, Y.; Dorn, G.W., 2nd PINK1-Phosphorylated Mitofusin 2 Is a Parkin Receptor for Culling Damaged Mitochondria. Science 2013, 340, 471–475.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ho, B.T.; Basler, M.; Mekalanos, J.J. Type 6 Secretion System-Mediated Immunity to Type 4 Secretion System-Mediated Gene Transfer. Science 2013, 342, 250–253.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kahneman, D.; Krueger, A.B.; Schkade, D.A.; Schwarz, N.; Stone, A.A. A Survey Method for Characterizing Daily Life Experience: The Day Reconstruction Method. Science 2004, 306, 1776–1780.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Spiegel, R. Psychopharmacology; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2005; ISBN 9780470869475.

An edited book

The Female Athlete Triad: A Clinical Guide; Gordon, C.M., LeBoff, M.S., Eds.; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2015; ISBN 9781489975249.

A chapter in an edited book

Fujii, T.; Ito, H.; Miyoshi, S. A Theoretical Analysis of Semi-Supervised Learning. In Neural Information Processing: 23rd International Conference, ICONIP 2016, Kyoto, Japan, October 16–21, 2016, Proceedings, Part II; Hirose, A., Ozawa, S., Doya, K., Ikeda, K., Lee, M., Liu, D., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 28–36 ISBN 9783319466712.

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

Luntz, S. Risk Of Death Is Significantly Lower In Teaching Hospitals Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/risk-of-death-is-significantly-lower-in-teaching-hospitals-/ (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 Computer-Based Patient Records: Sound Planning and Project Management Are Needed to Achieve a Two-Way Exchange of VA and DOD Health Data; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2004;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cusick, J.A. Does Size Really Matter? How Synchrony and Size Affect the Dynamic of Aggression between Two Sympatric Species of Dolphin in the Bahamas. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University: Boca Raton, FL, 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

Vecsey, G. The Place Is Rocking, and So Are the Knicks. New York Times 2010, B17.

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

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