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

Mervis, J., 2000. CALL TO ARMS: Diversity: Easier Said Than Done. Science 289, 378–379.

A journal article with 2 authors

Helffrich, G., Kaneshima, S., 2004. Seismological constraints on core composition from Fe-O-S liquid immiscibility. Science 306, 2239–2242.

A journal article with 3 authors

Frommer, W.B., Schulze, W.X., Lalonde, S., 2003. Plant science. Hexokinase, Jack-of-all-trades. Science 300, 261–263.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vajk, O.P., Mang, P.K., Greven, M., Gehring, P.M., Lynn, J.W., 2002. Quantum impurities in the two-dimensional spin one-half Heisenberg antiferromagnet. Science 295, 1691–1695.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hasslacher, C., Böhm, S., 2005. Diabetes and the Kidney. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Clay, S.M., 2013. Developing Biofuel Bioprocesses Using Systems and Synthetic Biology, SpringerBriefs in Systems Biology. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Bottiglia, R., 2016. Competitive Frontiers in P2P Lending Crowdfunding, in: Bottiglia, R., Pichler, F. (Eds.), Crowdfunding for SMEs: A European Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 61–92.

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

Davis, J., 2015. New Report Shows How Marine Mammals Are Thriving In Central London [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-report-shows-how-marine-mammals-are-thriving-central-london/ (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, 1988. Production and Quality of Education Information (No. T-PEMD-88-4). 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

Berkowitz, E.S., 2013. Some novel phenomena at high density (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Lee, L., 2008. Looking Nice Either Way. New York Times F3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mervis, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Helffrich and Kaneshima, 2004; Mervis, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Helffrich and Kaneshima, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Vajk et al., 2002)

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