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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Trewavas, A., 2001. Urban myths of organic farming. Nature 410, 409–410.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yi, X., Liu, C., 2014. Retention of cotyledons is crucial for resprouting of clipped oak seedlings. Sci. Rep. 4, 5145.

A journal article with 3 authors

Max, C.E., Canalizo, G., de Vries, W.H., 2007. Locating the two black holes in NGC 6240. Science 316, 1877–1880.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Klussmann, M., Iwamura, H., Mathew, S.P., Wells, D.H., Jr, Pandya, U., Armstrong, A., Blackmond, D.G., 2006. Thermodynamic control of asymmetric amplification in amino acid catalysis. Nature 441, 621–623.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burrows, G.E., Tyrl, R.J., 2012. Toxic Plants of North America. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Kapucu, N., Liou, K.T. (Eds.), 2014. Disaster and Development: Examining Global Issues and Cases, Environmental Hazards. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Chitchyan, R., Fabry, J., Bergmans, L., 2007. Aspects, Dependencies, and Interactions, in: Südholt, M., Consel, C. (Eds.), Object-Oriented Technology. ECOOP 2006 Workshop Reader: ECOOP 2006 Workshops, Nantes, France, July 3-7, 2006, Final Reports, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 26–39.

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

Hale, T., 2016. Scientists Just Found This Weird Jellyfish Deep In The Pacific Ocean [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-just-found-weird-creature-deep-ocean/ (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, 2005. Freight Transportation: Short Sea Shipping Option Shows Importance of Systematic Approach to Public Investment Decisions (No. GAO-05-768). 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

Dennard, B., 2017. The Impact of Racial Centrality on Authenticity and the Race-Based Impression Management Strategies of Black Management Consultants (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

SOPHIA PECK ROSS.RICHARD F. BLOUGH.HUGH ARCHBALD.ALEXANDER ROYDEN.RAPHAEL.SPENCER B. WITTY.CARL R. KLEIN, Tilis, L.B., JOSEPH A. CELESTE.JONATHAN ESTOFF.GEORGES SCHREIBER.THOMAS J. BARNUM.ALLAN C. INMAN, 1950. Letters; NOT CITY GUIDES TO THE PEOPLE GOP TROUBLE GRACE AND CHARM HOWL WITTY, TOO A BAS “ERPIVORI” OLD HAT FOREIGN SERVICE HERITAGE. New York Times The New York Times Magazine151.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Trewavas, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Trewavas, 2001; Yi and Liu, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Yi and Liu, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Klussmann et al., 2006)

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