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.

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Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.
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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
Hill, G. E. (2004). Ecology. A head start for some redstarts. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5705), 2201–2202.
A journal article with 2 authors
Sakaguchi, S., & Wing, K. (2011). Immunology. Damping by depletion. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6029), 542–543.
A journal article with 3 authors
Tobler, P. N., Fiorillo, C. D., & Schultz, W. (2005). Adaptive coding of reward value by dopamine neurons. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5715), 1642–1645.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Wang, J.-S., Wang, G., Feng, X.-Q., Kitamura, T., Kang, Y.-L., Yu, S.-W., & Qin, Q.-H. (2013). Hierarchical chirality transfer in the growth of Towel Gourd tendrils. Scientific reports, 3, 3102.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Dos Santos, E. C., Jr, & Cabral da Silva, E. R. (2014). ADVANCED POWER ELECTRONICS CONVERTERS. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Strandburg, K. J., & Raicu, D. S. (Eds.). (2006). Privacy and Technologies of Identity: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation. Boston, MA: Springer US.
A chapter in an edited book
He, Q., & Yang, B. (2015). Relationships Realized by Absolute Clauses. In B. Yang (Ed.), Absolute Clauses in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective: A Corpus-Based Study (pp. 65–106). 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
Andrew, E. (2015, November 2). Heat-Seeking “Grenades” Attack Cancer Cells. 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. (2006). Highway Finance: States’ Expanding Use of Tolling Illustrates Diverse Challenges and Strategies (No. GAO-06-554). 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
Walsh, M. A. (2010). Passage (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
Gustines, G. G. (2011, November 25). Superheroes for the Stockings. New York Times, p. C36.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hill 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Hill 2004; Sakaguchi and Wing 2011).

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

  • Two authors: (Sakaguchi and Wing 2011)
  • Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal titleThe Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics
AbbreviationJ. Real Estate Fin. Econ.
ISSN (print)0895-5638
ISSN (online)1573-045X
ScopeAccounting
Economics and Econometrics
Finance
Urban Studies

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