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

Veis, A. (2005). Materials science. A window on biomineralization. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5714), 1419–1420.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chittka, L., & Schürkens, S. (2001). Successful invasion of a floral market. Nature, 411(6838), 653.

A journal article with 3 authors

Iwai, M., Yokono, M., & Nakano, A. (2014). Visualizing structural dynamics of thylakoid membranes. Scientific Reports, 4, 3768.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chen, C.-F., Park, C.-H., Boudouris, B. W., Horng, J., Geng, B., Girit, C., Zettl, A., Crommie, M. F., Segalman, R. A., Louie, S. G., & Wang, F. (2011). Controlling inelastic light scattering quantum pathways in graphene. Nature, 471(7340), 617–620.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dos Santos, E. C., Jr, & Cabral da Silva, E. R. (2014). ADVANCED POWER ELECTRONICS CONVERTERS. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Scaglione, M. (2008). Imaging nelle urgenze vascolari — Body: Casi clinici (L. Romano & A. Rotondo, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Brown, N., Van Thiel, G. S., & Cole, B. J. (2014). Cartilage Restoration in the Patellofemoral Joint. In R. V. West & A. C. Colvin (Eds.), The Patellofemoral Joint in the Athlete (pp. 77–99). 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 Financial Economics.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2017, May 5). Parasite Infects Fish Eyes And Makes Them More Likely To Be Eaten By Birds. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2015). Telecommunications Relay Service: FCC Should Strengthen Its Management of Program to Assist Persons with Hearing or Speech Disabilities (GAO-15-409). 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

Works, R. F. (2016). Econometric modeling of exchange rate determinants by market classification: An empirical analysis of Japan and South Korea using the sticky-price monetary theory [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella University.

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. (2007, June 17). Nassau Working to Close Gap in 2008 Budget. New York Times, LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Veis, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Chittka & Schürkens, 2001; Veis, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Chittka & Schürkens, 2001)
Three authors: (Iwai et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Chen et al., 2011)

About the journal

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