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

Eisenstein, M., 2012. Pregnancy: Delivery from breast cancer. Nature 485, S54.

A journal article with 2 authors

Solé, R., Macía, J., 2014. Synthetic biology: Biocircuits in synchrony. Nature 508, 326–327.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rikkinen, J., Oksanen, I., Lohtander, K., 2002. Lichen guilds share related cyanobacterial symbionts. Science 297, 357.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Benhar, M., Forrester, M.T., Hess, D.T., Stamler, J.S., 2008. Regulated protein denitrosylation by cytosolic and mitochondrial thioredoxins. Science 320, 1050–1054.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carne, E.B., 2011. Connections for the Digital Age. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Sassone Corsi, P., Christen, Y. (Eds.), 2012. Epigenetics, Brain and Behavior, Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

de Granville, C., Wang, D., Southerland, J., Fagg, A.H., Platt, R., 2009. Grasping Affordances: Learning to Connet vission to Hand Action, in: Sukhatme, G. (Ed.), The Path to Autonomous Robots: Essays in Honor of George A. Bekey. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 1–22.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Dental Plaque Reveals Pre-Agriculture Plant Food For Humans [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dental-plaque-reveals-pre-agriculture-plant-food-humans/ (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, 2014. Railroad Retirement Board: Total and Permanent Disability Program at Risk of Improper Payments (No. GAO-14-418). 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

Boothe, C.S., 2012. The effects of prototype medium on the user’s overall perception of usability and ability to detect usability flaws (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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., 2005. Court to Rule on What Constitutes Employer Retaliation. New York Times A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eisenstein, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Eisenstein, 2012; Solé and Macía, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Solé and Macía, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Benhar et al., 2008)

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

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