How to format your references using the The Review of Financial Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Review of Financial Studies. 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	Download the output style file
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

Adams, W. M. 2014. Conservation. The Value of Valuing Nature. Science (New York, N.Y.) 346:549–51.

A journal article with 2 authors

McConkey, E. H., and A. Varki. 2005. Genomics. Thoughts on the Future of Great Ape Research. Science (New York, N.Y.) 309:1499–1501.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shikano, Y., T. Wada, and J. Horikawa. 2014. Discrete-Time Quantum Walk with Feed-Forward Quantum Coin. Scientific reports 4:4427.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lekshmy, P. R., M. Midhun, R. Ramesh, and R. A. Jani. 2014. 18O Depletion in Monsoon Rain Relates to Large Scale Organized Convection Rather than the Amount of Rainfall. Scientific reports 4:5661.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Faticoni, T. G. 2006. The Mathematics of Infinity. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lawry, J., E. Miranda, A. Bugarin, S. Li, M. A. Gil, P. aw Grzegorzewski, and O. Hyrniewicz, eds. 2006. Soft Methods for Integrated Uncertainty Modelling. . Vol. 37. Advances in Soft ComputingBerlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Vestergaard, C., and M. S. Deleuran. 2014. Inflammatory-Driven Depletion of Filaggrin Proteins. In Thyssen, J. P. and In H. I. Maibach (eds.), Filaggrin: Basic Science, Epidemiology, Clinical Aspects and Management. 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 Review of Financial Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. Earthquakes, Superstorms … And Other Little-Known Perils Of Climate Change. 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. 2003. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Comments on Recent GAO Report on Its Enterprise Architecture Efforts.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

Boyer, T. H. 2008. Removal of Natural Organic Matter by Anion Exchange: Multiscale Experimentation and Mathematical Modeling.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

Hodgman, J. 2017. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times .

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Adams 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Adams 2014; McConkey and Varki 2005).

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

Two authors: (McConkey and Varki 2005)
Three authors: (Shikano, Wada, and Horikawa 2014)
4 or more authors: (Lekshmy et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Review of Financial Studies
Abbreviation	Rev. Financ. Stud.
ISSN (print)	0893-9454
ISSN (online)	1465-7368
Scope	Accounting Economics and Econometrics Finance