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

Sampson, R. J. (2012). Sociology. Moving and the neighborhood glass ceiling. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6101), 1464–1465.

A journal article with 2 authors

Langlais, B., & Amit, H. (2008). Planetary science. The past Martian dynamo. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5897), 1784–1785.

A journal article with 3 authors

Phelps, J., Webb, E. L., & Agrawal, A. (2010). Land use. Does REDD+ threaten to recentralize forest governance? Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5976), 312–313.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Rosso, G., Liashkovich, I., Gess, B., Young, P., Kun, A., & Shahin, V. (2014). Unravelling crucial biomechanical resilience of myelinated peripheral nerve fibres provided by the Schwann cell basal lamina and PMP22. Scientific reports, 4, 7286.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Clayton, L. A. (2010). Bartolomé de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Ciocan, C. (2005). Levinas Concordance. (G. Hansel, Ed.). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Pedersen, L., & Frier, C. (2013). Predicting Footbridge Response Using Stochastic Load Models. In A. Cunha (Ed.), Topics in Dynamics of Bridges, Volume 3: Proceedings of the 31st IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2013 (pp. 47–53). New York, NY: 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

Andrew, E. (2015, January 29). New Type Of Chemical Bond Confirmed. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/new-chemical-bond-described-over-30-years-after-it-was-proposed/. 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. (1995). School Finance: Three States’ Experiences With Equity in School Funding (No. HEHS-96-39). 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

Slotnick, A. (2012). Status symbols in triathlete culture (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

Koblin, J. (2017, August 14). For HBO, Storm Clouds Gather Over What Should Be a Smashing Summer. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sampson 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Langlais and Amit 2008; Sampson 2012).

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

Two authors: (Langlais and Amit 2008)
Three or more authors: (Rosso et al. 2014)

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