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

Kotliar, Gabriel. 2003. “Physics. Driving the Electron over the Edge.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 302 (5642): 67–69.

A journal article with 2 authors

Herrera, Ana M., and Martin J. Cohn. 2014. “Embryonic Origin and Compartmental Organization of the External Genitalia.” Scientific Reports 4 (November): 6896.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bilham, R., V. K. Gaur, and P. Molnar. 2001. “Earthquakes. Himalayan Seismic Hazard.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 293 (5534): 1442–1444.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Trotter, Julie A., Ian S. Williams, Christopher R. Barnes, Christophe Lécuyer, and Robert S. Nicoll. 2008. “Did Cooling Oceans Trigger Ordovician Biodiversification? Evidence from Conodont Thermometry.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 321 (5888): 550–554.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg, Steven M. 2010. The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hauge, Kjellrun Hiis, and Douglas Clyde Wilson, eds. 2009. Comparative Evaluations of Innovative Fisheries Management: Global Experiences and European Prospects. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Smith, J. David, Justin J. Couchman, and Michael J. Beran. 2014. “The Highs and Lows of Theoretical Interpretation in Animal-Metacognition Research.” In The Cognitive Neuroscience of Metacognition, edited by Stephen M. Fleming and Christopher D. Frith, 87–111. 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

Hamilton, Kristy. 2016. “UFOs, Climate Change And Missing Airliners: How To Separate Fact From Fiction.” 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. 1989. ADP Systems: VA Actions to Improve Management of Information Resources. IMTEC-89-24. 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

Horvath, Christopher P. 2012. “Comparison of Waste Heat Driven and Electrically Driven Cooling Systems for a High Ambient Temperature, off-Grid Application.” Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD: 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

Brennan, Thomas James. 2017. “Why Pot, Not Pills, Works for My T.B.I.” New York Times, September 1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kotliar 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Kotliar 2003; Herrera and Cohn 2014).

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

Two authors: (Herrera and Cohn 2014)
Three authors: (Bilham, Gaur, and Molnar 2001)
4 or more authors: (Trotter et al. 2008)

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)