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

Gregory CD (2014) Cell biology: The disassembly of death. Nature 507:312–313

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang H-W, Nogales E (2005) Nucleotide-dependent bending flexibility of tubulin regulates microtubule assembly. Nature 435:911–915

A journal article with 3 authors

Norell MA, Makovicky PJ, Currie PJ (2001) Palaeontology. The beaks of ostrich dinosaurs. Nature 412:873–874

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tun MMN, Aoki K, Senba M, et al (2014) Protective role of TNF-α, IL-10 and IL-2 in mice infected with the Oshima strain of Tick-borne encephalitis virus. Sci Rep 4:5344

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moreau E, Adali T (2013) Blind Identification and Separation of Complex-Valued Signals. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA

An edited book

Dediu A-H, Martín-Vide C, Truthe B, Vega-Rodríguez MA (eds) (2013) Theory and Practice of Natural Computing: Second International Conference, TPNC 2013, Cáceres, Spain, December 3-5, 2013, Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Manhães M, Dávila GA (2016) The Innovation Triple Challenge: A Creativity Check for SMES. In: North K, Varvakis G (eds) Competitive Strategies for Small and Medium Enterprises: Increasing Crisis Resilience, Agility and Innovation in Turbulent Times. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 77–92

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

Carpineti A (2017) Astronomers Find Quasar With Temperatures Hotter Than Thought Possible. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-find-quasar-with-temperatures-hotter-than-thought-possible/. 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 (1981) The Bureau of the Census Must Solve ADP Acquisition and Security Problems. 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

Abuzainab N (2013) Energy and security aspects of wireless networks: Performance and tradeoffs. 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

Brantley B (2017) Some Friends Just Aren’t Huggers. New York Times C5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gregory 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Wang and Nogales 2005; Gregory 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Nogales 2005)
Three or more authors: (Tun et al. 2014)

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