How to format your references using the Research in International Business and Finance citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research in International Business 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	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

Mahaffy, P.R., 2005. Intensive Titan exploration begins. Science 308, 969–970.

A journal article with 2 authors

Seitz, A.R., Watanabe, T., 2003. Psychophysics: Is subliminal learning really passive? Nature 422, 36.

A journal article with 3 authors

Klak, C., Reeves, G., Hedderson, T., 2004. Unmatched tempo of evolution in Southern African semi-desert ice plants. Nature 427, 63–65.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Goedhart, J., van Unen, J., Adjobo-Hermans, M.J.W., Gadella, T.W.J., Jr, 2013. Signaling efficiency of Gαq through its effectors p63RhoGEF and GEFT depends on their subcellular location. Sci. Rep. 3, 2284.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hulin, W., Jin-Ting, Z., 2006. Nonparametric Regression Methods for Longitudinal Data Analysis: Mixed-Effects Modeling Approaches, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Shih, H., 2013. English Writings of Hu Shih: Chinese Philosophy and Intellectual History (Volume 2), China Academic Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Di Piazza, M.C., Vitale, G., 2013. Photovoltaic Source Dynamic Modeling Issues, in: Vitale, G. (Ed.), Photovoltaic Sources: Modeling and Emulation, Green Energy and Technology. Springer, London, pp. 131–169.

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 Research in International Business and Finance.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2015. Researchers Can Now 3D Print A Human Heart Using Biological Material [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/human-heart-can-now-be-3d-printed-using-biological-material/ (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, 2009. Responses to Questions for the Record: March 18, 2009, Hearing on ATC Modernization: Near-Term Achievable Goals (No. GAO-09-718R). 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

Brandom, B.M., 2009. Spiritual and emotional needs of young adults who are members of mainstream Protestant churches (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Saslow, L., 2005. Brentwood Sets a Dress Code Into Motion. New York Times 14LI3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mahaffy, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Mahaffy, 2005; Seitz and Watanabe, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Seitz and Watanabe, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Goedhart et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Research in International Business and Finance
Abbreviation	Res. Int. Bus. Fin.
ISSN (print)	0275-5319
Scope	Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) Finance