How to format your references using the The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics citation style

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

Nichols, C. G. (2006). KATP channels as molecular sensors of cellular metabolism. Nature, 440(7083), 470–476.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sato, M., & Sievers, A. J. (2004). Direct observation of the discrete character of intrinsic localized modes in an antiferromagnet. Nature, 432(7016), 486–488.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nisbet, E. G., Dlugokencky, E. J., & Bousquet, P. (2014). Atmospheric science. Methane on the rise--again. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6170), 493–495.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hu, Q.-H., Xie, Z.-Q., Wang, X.-M., Kang, H., He, Q.-F., & Zhang, P. (2013). Secondary organic aerosols over oceans via oxidation of isoprene and monoterpenes from Arctic to Antarctic. Scientific reports, 3, 2280.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pétrowski, A., & Ben-Hamida, S. (2017). Evolutionary Algorithms. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Weinberg, K., & Pandolfi, A. (Eds.). (2016). Innovative Numerical Approaches for Multi-Field and Multi-Scale Problems: In Honor of Michael Ortiz’s 60th Birthday (Vol. 81). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Young, L. J. (2008). Molecular Neurobiology of the Social Brain. In D. W. Pfaff, C. Kordon, P. Chanson, & Y. Christen (Eds.), Hormones and Social Behaviour (pp. 57–64). 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 Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2016, June 30). Why Should Mammal Dads Care? IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 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. (2009). English Language Learning: Diverse Federal and State Efforts to Support Adult English Language Learning Could Benefit from More Coordination (No. GAO-09-575). 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

Elizalde, K. (2014). Relationship between Latino adolescents and their mental health well-being: A quantitative study (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Vecsey, G. (2014, July 7). Semifinals Remain an Inner Sanctum Until Further Notice. New York Times, p. D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nichols 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Nichols 2006; Sato and Sievers 2004).

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

Two authors: (Sato and Sievers 2004)
Three or more authors: (Hu et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics
Abbreviation	J. Real Estate Fin. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0895-5638
ISSN (online)	1573-045X
Scope	Accounting Economics and Econometrics Finance Urban Studies