How to format your references using the Review of Financial Economics citation style

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

Clapham, D. E. (2003). TRP channels as cellular sensors. Nature, 426(6966), 517–524.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schofield, R. M. S., & Nesson, M. H. (2003). Comment on “High abrasion resistance with sparse mineralization: copper biomineral in worm jaws.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5636), 1049; author reply 1049.

A journal article with 3 authors

Charrier, I., Mathevon, N., & Jouventin, P. (2001). Mother’s voice recognition by seal pups. Nature, 412(6850), 873.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Boustany, A. M., Davis, S. F., Pyle, P., Anderson, S. D., Le Boeuf, B. J., & Block, B. A. (2002). Expanded niche for white sharks. Nature, 415(6867), 35–36.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Decreusefond, L., & Moyal, P. (2012). Stochastic Modeling and Analysis of Telecom Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wu, T.-T., & Ma, C.-C. (Eds.). (2010). IUTAM Symposium on Recent Advances of Acoustic Waves in Solids: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Recent Advances of Acoustic Waves in Solids, Taipei, Taiwan, May 25-28, 2009 (Vol. 26). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Krishnan, S. P. T., & Gonzalez, J. L. U. (2015). Google App Engine. In J. L. U. Gonzalez (Ed.), Building Your Next Big Thing with Google Cloud Platform: A Guide for Developers and Enterprise Architects (pp. 83–122). Apress.

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 Financial Economics.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015, July 24). Hair Bleach May Have Powered the Origins Of Life. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/hair-bleach-may-have-powered-origins-life/

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. (1994). Airport Improvement Program: Reliever Airport Set-Aside Funds Could Be Redirected (RCED-94-226). 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

Armani, M. D. (2010). Nucleic acid extraction and detection across two-dimensional tissue samples [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Saslow, L. (2006, October 22). School Chief, Never Accused, Quits After Scandal. New York Times, 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clapham, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Clapham, 2003; Schofield & Nesson, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Schofield & Nesson, 2003)
Three authors: (Charrier et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Boustany et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of Financial Economics
Abbreviation	Rev. Financ. Econ.
ISSN (print)	1058-3300
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance