How to format your references using the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting. 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

Fenchel T (2002) Microbial behavior in a heterogeneous world. Science 296:1068–1071

A journal article with 2 authors

Kouwenhoven LP, Venema LC (2000) Heat flow through nanobridges. Nature 404:943–944

A journal article with 3 authors

Fan C, Li J, Wang L (2014) Phase transitions, mechanical properties and electronic structures of novel boron phases under high-pressure: a first-principles study. Sci Rep 4:6786

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bottke WF Jr, Vokrouhlický D, Broz M, et al (2001) Dynamical spreading of asteroid families by the Yarkovsky effect. Science 294:1693–1696

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Levy G, Levin B (2014) The Biostatistics of Aging. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Hassan OH, Abidin SZ, Legino R, et al (eds) (2015) International Colloquium of Art and Design Education Research (i-CADER 2014), 1st ed. 2016. Springer, Singapore

A chapter in an edited book

Alauzet F, Hassan W, Picasso M (2010) Goal Oriented, Anisotropic, A Posteriori Error Estimates for the Laplace Equation. In: Kreiss G, Lötstedt P, Målqvist A, Neytcheva M (eds) Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications 2009: Proceedings of ENUMATH 2009, the 8th European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications, Uppsala, July 2009. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 47–58

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 Quantitative Finance and Accounting.

Blog post

Davis J (2017) “Cuddle Hormone” May Help Chimpanzees Wage War. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cuddle-hormone-may-help-chimpanzees-wage-war/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2004) Public Community Colleges and Technical Schools: Most Schools Use Both Credit and Noncredit Programs for Workforce Development. 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

Coleman MJ (2010) Surface accuracy analysis and mathematical modeling of deployable large aperture elastic antenna reflectors. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Stubbs J, Reyes R (2016) Don’t Waste Your Vote. Trade It. New York Times A27

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fenchel 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Kouwenhoven and Venema 2000; Fenchel 2002).

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

Two authors: (Kouwenhoven and Venema 2000)
Three or more authors: (Bottke et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting
Abbreviation	Rev. Quant. Fin. Acc.
ISSN (print)	0924-865X
ISSN (online)	1573-7179
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting Accounting Finance