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

Wegener, Martin. 2013. “Materials Science. Metamaterials beyond Optics.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 342 (6161): 939–940.

A journal article with 2 authors

Saunders, Mark A., and Adam S. Lea. 2008. “Large Contribution of Sea Surface Warming to Recent Increase in Atlantic Hurricane Activity.” Nature 451 (7178): 557–560.

A journal article with 3 authors

McKee, R. A., F. J. Walker, and M. F. Chisholm. 2001. “Physical Structure and Inversion Charge at a Semiconductor Interface with a Crystalline Oxide.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 293 (5529): 468–471.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Cobo, Isidoro, Paola Martinelli, Marta Flández, Latifa Bakiri, Mingfeng Zhang, Enrique Carrillo-de-Santa-Pau, Jinping Jia, et al. 2018. “Transcriptional Regulation by NR5A2 Links Differentiation and Inflammation in the Pancreas.” Nature 554 (7693): 533–537.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kuus, Merje. 2013. Geopolitics and Expertise. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Beer, Michael, Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou, Edoardo Patelli, and Siu-Kui Au, eds. 2015. Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wasaki, Jun, and Hayato Maruyama. 2011. “Molecular Approaches to the Study of Biological Phosphorus Cycling.” In Phosphorus in Action: Biological Processes in Soil Phosphorus Cycling, edited by Else Bünemann, Astrid Oberson, and Emmanuel Frossard, 93–111. Soil Biology. 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

Davis, Josh. 2016. “The Bacteria In Our Gut May Influence Our Response To Certain Cancer Treatments.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/the-bacteria-in-our-gut-may-influence-our-response-to-certain-cancer-treatments/.

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. 1994. Gray Market Vehicle Program: Extension Warranted, but Improvements in Vehicle Identification Are Needed. RCED-94-22. 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

Brown, H. Paul. 2003. “The Pragmatics of Direct Address in the Iliad: A Study in Linguistic Politeness.” Doctoral dissertation, Columbus, OH: Ohio State 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

Rothenberg, Interview by Ben. 2016. “Life on Tour With a Little One in Tow.” New York Times, September 7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wegener 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Wegener 2013; Saunders and Lea 2008).

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

Two authors: (Saunders and Lea 2008)
Three authors: (McKee, Walker, and Chisholm 2001)
4 or more authors: (Cobo et al. 2018)

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)