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

Eberhard, W. G. 2000. Spider Manipulation by a Wasp Larva. Nature 406:255–56.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stagon, S. P., and H. Huang. 2013. Airtight Metallic Sealing at Room Temperature under Small Mechanical Pressure. Scientific reports 3:3066.

A journal article with 3 authors

Afraz, S.-R., R. Kiani, and H. Esteky. 2006. Microstimulation of Inferotemporal Cortex Influences Face Categorization. Nature 442:692–95.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Schoenberg, R., B. S. Kamber, K. D. Collerson, and S. Moorbath. 2002. Tungsten Isotope Evidence from Approximately 3.8-Gyr Metamorphosed Sediments for Early Meteorite Bombardment of the Earth. Nature 418:403–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bouchet, O. 2012. Wireless Optical Communications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

McInerney, D. 2015. Open Source Geospatial Tools: Applications in Earth Observation. . Ed. Pieter Kempeneers. Earth Systems Data and ModelsCham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Bäck, J., E. Nikinmaa, L. Kulmala, A. Simojoki, T. Kalliokoski, P. Hari, R. Häkkinen, et al. 2013. Processes in Living Structures. In Hari, P., In K. Heliövaara, and In L. Kulmala (eds.), Physical and Physiological Forest Ecology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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. Neolithic Bling Provides Clues To Spread Of Farming In Europe. 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. 2014. Information Technology: Reform Initiatives Can Help Improve Efficiency and Effectiveness.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

Ratzlaff, K. 2012. Dynamics of Chytrid Fungus (Batrachochytrium Dendrobatidis) Infection in Amphibians in the Rincon Mountains and Tucson, Arizona.Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.

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

Brantley, B. 2016. A Tempest in a Bourbon Bottle. New York Times .

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eberhard 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Eberhard 2000; Stagon and Huang 2013).

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

Two authors: (Stagon and Huang 2013)
Three authors: (Afraz, Kiani, and Esteky 2006)
4 or more authors: (Schoenberg et al. 2002)

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