How to format your references using the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. 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

Veevers, J., 2011. Geophysics: earth’s longest fossil rift-valley system. Nature 479, 304–306.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ding, T., Schloss, P.D., 2014. Dynamics and associations of microbial community types across the human body. Nature 509, 357–360.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sinsabaugh, R.L., Hill, B.H., Follstad Shah, J.J., 2009. Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry of microbial organic nutrient acquisition in soil and sediment. Nature 462, 795–798.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lee, B.-S., Jeon, S.-Y., Park, H., Lee, G., Yang, H.-S., Yu, W.-R., 2014. New electrospinning nozzle to reduce jet instability and its application to manufacture of multi-layered nanofibers. Sci. Rep. 4, 6758.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Callahan, K.R., Stetz, G.S., Brooks, L.M., 2011. Project Management Accounting. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Wazer, D.E., Arthur, D.W., Vicini, F.A. (Eds.), 2006. Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation: Techniques and Clinical Implementation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Sturmey, P., Williams, D.E., 2016. Functional Assessment and Analysis and Function-Based Interventions, in: Williams, D.E. (Ed.), Pica in Individuals with Developmental Disabilities, Autism and Child Psychopathology Series. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 65–79.

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 Pacific-Basin Finance Journal.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2017. 2016’s Arctic Report Card: Temperatures Went Crazy [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, 1996. Higher Education: Tuition Increasing Faster Than Household Income and Public Colleges’ Costs (No. HEHS-96-154). 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

Sefrit, J., 2008. A study of the effectiveness of a school district’s mentoring /professional development plan for beginning teachers (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

Seymour, M., 2015. How About a Nightcap? New York Times BR11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Veevers, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Ding and Schloss, 2014; Veevers, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Ding and Schloss, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Pacific-Basin Finance Journal
ISSN (print)	0927-538X
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance