How to format your references using the The European Journal of Finance citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The European Journal of Finance. 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

Holden, Constance. 2004. “Long Hours aside, Respondents Say Jobs Offer ‘as Much Fun as You Can Have.’” Science (New York, N.Y.) 304 (5678): 1830–1837.

A journal article with 2 authors

Taylor, Michael S., and Michael E. Hellberg. 2003. “Genetic Evidence for Local Retention of Pelagic Larvae in a Caribbean Reef Fish.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299 (5603): 107–109.

A journal article with 3 authors

Daeschler, Edward B., Neil H. Shubin, and Farish A. Jenkins Jr. 2006. “A Devonian Tetrapod-like Fish and the Evolution of the Tetrapod Body Plan.” Nature 440 (7085): 757–763.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zeineh, Michael M., Stephen A. Engel, Paul M. Thompson, and Susan Y. Bookheimer. 2003. “Dynamics of the Hippocampus during Encoding and Retrieval of Face-Name Pairs.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299 (5606): 577–580.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baban, Tharwat M. 2016. Shallow Foundations. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Schultheiss, Heinz-Peter, and Michel Noutsias, eds. 2010. Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy (DCMi): Pathogenesis and Therapy. Progress in Inflammation Research. Basel: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Rodil, Kasper. 2014. “A Participatory Perspective on Cross-Cultural Design.” In Building Bridges: HCI, Visualization, and Non-Formal Modeling: IFIP WG 13.7 Workshops on Human–Computer Interaction and Visualization: 7th HCIV@ECCE 2011, Rostock, Germany, August 23, 2011, and 8th HCIV@INTERACT 2011, Lisbon, Portugal, September 5, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, edited by Achim Ebert, Gerrit C. van der Veer, Gitta Domik, Nahum D. Gershon, and Inga Scheler, 30–46. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 The European Journal of Finance.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2016. “King Tutankhamun’s Dagger Was Literally Out Of This World.” 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. 1997. Federal Communications Commission: International Settlement Rates. OGC-97-63. Washington, DC: 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

McAlpine, Teresa Elizabeth. 2008. “College Students and Career: An Exploration of Vocational Anticipatory Socialization.” Doctoral dissertation, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina.

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

Schilling, Mary Kaye. 2017. “The Accidental Tourist.” New York Times, May 9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Holden 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Holden 2004; Taylor and Hellberg 2003).

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

Two authors: (Taylor and Hellberg 2003)
Three authors: (Daeschler, Shubin, and Jenkins 2006)
4 or more authors: (Zeineh et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	The European Journal of Finance
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Fin.
ISSN (print)	1351-847X
ISSN (online)	1466-4364
Scope	Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)