How to format your references using the Review of Development Finance citation style

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

Lang, M., 2007. Tough sell. Nature 446, 830.

A journal article with 2 authors

Barres, B.A., Smith, S.J., 2001. Neurobiology. Cholesterol--making or breaking the synapse. Science 294, 1296–1297.

A journal article with 3 authors

Loudet, J.C., Hanusse, P., Poulin, P., 2004. Stokes drag on a sphere in a nematic liquid crystal. Science 306, 1525.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Storici, F., Bebenek, K., Kunkel, T.A., Gordenin, D.A., Resnick, M.A., 2007. RNA-templated DNA repair. Nature 447, 338–341.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bachmann, H., Steinle, A., Hahn, V., 2010. Bauen mit Betonfertigteilen im Hochbau. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

De Silva, A.M., 2015. Grammar-Based Feature Generation for Time-Series Prediction, SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Singapore.

A chapter in an edited book

Tapas Si, 2016. Grammatical Evolution Using Fireworks Algorithm, in: Pant, M., Deep, K., Bansal, J.C., Nagar, A., Das, K.N. (Eds.), Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving: SocProS 2015, Volume 1, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer, Singapore, pp. 43–55.

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 Development Finance.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2016. 90 Megacity Mayors Pledge To Fight Dangerous Climate Change [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1999. Migrant Children: Education and HHS Need to Improve the Exchange of Participant Information (No. HEHS-00-4). 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

Piekielek, J.A., 2009. Public wildlands at the U.S.-Mexico border: Where conservation, migration, and border enforcement collide (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Kelly, S., 1978. The Canadiens; and Soul Hockey No Politics on Ice Flyers a Different Breed. New York Times SportsS2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lang, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Barres and Smith, 2001; Lang, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Barres and Smith, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Storici et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of Development Finance
Abbreviation	Rev. Dev. Fin.
ISSN (print)	1879-9337
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance