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

Wright, P.A., 2010. Chemistry. Opening the door to peptide-based porous solids. Science 329, 1025–1026.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shapiro, L., Losick, R., 2013. Retrospective. Francois Jacob (1920-2013). Science 340, 939.

A journal article with 3 authors

Scholey, J.M., Brust-Mascher, I., Mogilner, A., 2003. Cell division. Nature 422, 746–752.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Esch, H.E., Zhang, S., Srinivasan, M.V., Tautz, J., 2001. Honeybee dances communicate distances measured by optic flow. Nature 411, 581–583.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ventre, D., 2016. Information Warfare. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Marín-García, J., 2008. Aging and the Heart: A Post-Genomic View. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Iizuka, M., Zanlungo, J.P., 2016. Environmental Collapse and Institutional Restructuring: The Sanitary Crisis in the Chilean Salmon Industry, in: Hosono, A., Iizuka, M., Katz, J. (Eds.), Chile’s Salmon Industry: Policy Challenges in Managing Public Goods. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 109–135.

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

Hale, T., 2016. Puppy Swallows Tube Of Glue Creating A Perfect Mold Of Its Stomach [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/puppy-swallows-tube-of-glue-creating-a-perfect-mold-of-its-stomach/ (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, 2013. Indian Affairs: Management Challenges Continue to Hinder Efforts to Improve Indian Education (No. GAO-13-342T). 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

Berkow, K., 2017. Importance of Effective Leadership for the Success of Mergers and Acquisitions (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Hollander, S., 2009. On the Street of Superlatives. New York Times CY5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wright, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Shapiro and Losick, 2013; Wright, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Shapiro and Losick, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Esch et al., 2001)

About the journal

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