How to format your references using the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance. 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

Bloom, B. R. (2000). On the particularity of pathogens. Nature, 406(6797), 760–761.

A journal article with 2 authors

Entcheva, E., & Williams, J. C. (2014). Channelrhodopsin2 current during the action potential: “optical AP clamp” and approximation. Scientific Reports, 4, 5838.

A journal article with 3 authors

Harmon, J. P., Moran, N. A., & Ives, A. R. (2009). Species response to environmental change: impacts of food web interactions and evolution. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5919), 1347–1350.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Narita, M., Young, A. R. J., Arakawa, S., Samarajiwa, S. A., Nakashima, T., Yoshida, S., Hong, S., Berry, L. S., Reichelt, S., Ferreira, M., Tavaré, S., Inoki, K., Shimizu, S., & Narita, M. (2011). Spatial coupling of mTOR and autophagy augments secretory phenotypes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6032), 966–970.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li, W. (2004). Risk Assessment of Power Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rozhkova, E. A., & Ariga, K. (Eds.). (2015). From Molecules to Materials: Pathways to Artificial Photosynthesis. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Taura, T., & Nagai, Y. (2013). Theory of Concept Generation. In Y. Nagai (Ed.), Concept Generation for Design Creativity: A Systematized Theory and Methodology (pp. 27–40). Springer.

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 Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015, January 13). Scientists and Engineers Warn Of The Dangers Of Artificial Intelligence. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/scientists-and-engineers-warn-artificial-intelligence/

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. (1987). Trademark ADP System: Patent Office Should Analyze Alternatives Before Contract Award (IMTEC-87-44). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Johnson, R. (2010). Grounding theatricality in reality: The creation of the role of Suzie in “Current Nobody” [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Gates, A. (2013, June 21). One Despicable, Another Disdainful. New York Times, CT10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bloom, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Bloom, 2000; Entcheva & Williams, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Entcheva & Williams, 2014)
Three authors: (Harmon et al., 2009)
6 or more authors: (Narita et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance
Abbreviation	Q. Rev. Econ. Finance
ISSN (print)	1062-9769
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance