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

Prusiner, S. B. (2012). Cell biology. A unifying role for prions in neurodegenerative diseases. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6088), 1511–1513.

A journal article with 2 authors

Besenbacher, F., & Nørskov, J. K. (2000). SURFACE SCIENCE: How to Power a Nanomotor. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5496), 1520.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kennedy, M., Mrofka, D., & von der Borch, C. (2008). Snowball Earth termination by destabilization of equatorial permafrost methane clathrate. Nature, 453(7195), 642–645.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Palliser, D., Chowdhury, D., Wang, Q.-Y., Lee, S. J., Bronson, R. T., Knipe, D. M., & Lieberman, J. (2006). An siRNA-based microbicide protects mice from lethal herpes simplex virus 2 infection. Nature, 439(7072), 89–94.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kumar, V. (2006). Mobile Database Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Steinmann, P., & Maugin, G. A. (Eds.). (2005). Mechanics of Material Forces (Vol. 11). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Yitzhaki, S., & Schechtman, E. (2013). The Lorenz Curve and the Concentration Curve. In E. Schechtman (Ed.), The Gini Methodology: A Primer on a Statistical Methodology (pp. 75–98). 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

Hale, T. (2017, February 14). Watch Two Of Australia’s Most Infamous Snakes Go Head-To-Head In A Battle To The Death. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-two-of-australias-most-infamous-snakes-go-headtohead/

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. (1982). GAO Reports Concerning Federal Student Financial Aid Programs (117445). 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

Keith, A. (2017). Engagement and Temporary Teams: Considerations for Value Engineering Study Teams and Facilitators [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine University.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2006, June 13). PRISONERS GAIN IN SUIT ATTACKING LETHAL INJECTION. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Prusiner, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Besenbacher & Nørskov, 2000; Prusiner, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Besenbacher & Nørskov, 2000)
Three authors: (Kennedy et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Palliser et al., 2006)

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