How to format your references using the Review of Derivatives Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Review of Derivatives Research. 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

Rothwell, N. (2004). One more thing. Nature, 427(6976), 683.

A journal article with 2 authors

Burt, D., & Pourquie, O. (2003). Genetics. Chicken genome--science nuggets to come soon. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5626), 1669.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chrysostomou, A., Lucas, P. W., & Hough, J. H. (2007). Circular polarimetry reveals helical magnetic fields in the young stellar object HH 135-136. Nature, 450(7166), 71–73.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Crabbe, L., Verdun, R. E., Haggblom, C. I., & Karlseder, J. (2004). Defective telomere lagging strand synthesis in cells lacking WRN helicase activity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5703), 1951–1953.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Voit, B., Haag, R., Appelhans, D., & Welzel, P. B. (2016). Bio- and Multifunctional Polymer Architectures. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Yamanouchi, K., Roso, L., Li, R., Mathur, D., & Normand, D. (Eds.). (2015). Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science XII (1st ed. 2015., Vol. 112). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Battaglia, E. (2009). Fisiopatologia dell’annegamento. In A. Baghin (Ed.), Annegamento Soccorso tecnico e sanitario (pp. 59–63). Milano: 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 Review of Derivatives Research.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, September 26). Star Without Iron Inspires Galactic Archaeology. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/star-without-iron-galactic-archaeologists-dream/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2010). Aviation Security: Progress Made but Actions Needed to Address Challenges in Meeting the Air Cargo Screening Mandate (No. GAO-10-880T). Washington, DC: 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

Miller, C. K. (2006). Incidence and Characterization of Oral Motor, Pharyngeal, and Cervical Esophageal Swallowing Dysfunction in Pediatric Patients with Chiari 1 Malformation (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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

Joy, S. (2014, May 28). New Footprints. New York Times, p. E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rothwell 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Burt and Pourquie 2003; Rothwell 2004).

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

Two authors: (Burt and Pourquie 2003)
Three or more authors: (Crabbe et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of Derivatives Research
Abbreviation	Rev. Deriv. Res.
ISSN (print)	1380-6645
ISSN (online)	1573-7144
Scope	Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) Finance