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

Cairns J (2004) The usefulness of parody. Nature 428:23

A journal article with 2 authors

Losick R, Desplan C (2008) Stochasticity and cell fate. Science 320:65–68

A journal article with 3 authors

Miller RF, Cloutier R, Turner S (2003) The oldest articulated chondrichthyan from the Early Devonian period. Nature 425:501–504

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gegear RJ, Casselman A, Waddell S, Reppert SM (2008) Cryptochrome mediates light-dependent magnetosensitivity in Drosophila. Nature 454:1014–1018

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Haas TC (2013) Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Ecosystem Managers. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Tan KC (2005) Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Salah A, Outbib R, Gaber J (2012) Simulation and Control of PEMFCS Thermal Behavior. In: Basualdo MS, Feroldi D, Outbib R (eds) PEM Fuel Cells with Bio-Ethanol Processor Systems: A Multidisciplinary Study of Modelling, Simulation, Fault Diagnosis and Advanced Control. Springer, London, pp 117–149

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

O`Callaghan J (2017) Watch Live As NASA Makes A Major Exoplanet Announcement Today. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-live-as-nasa-makes-a-major-exoplanet-announcement-today/. 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 (1989) Observations on Management of Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. 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

Fischer D (2012) Psychology and people living with hiv/aids: A critical review of the literature. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Williams J (2017) TV, Pre-Golden Age. New York Times BR6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cairns 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Cairns 2004; Losick and Desplan 2008).

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

Two authors: (Losick and Desplan 2008)
Three or more authors: (Gegear et al. 2008)

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