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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Spanish Review of Financial 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

Butler, D., 2001. Bioinformatics to be nurtured online. Nature 411, 513.

A journal article with 2 authors

Davies, H.M.L., Manning, J.R., 2008. Catalytic C-H functionalization by metal carbenoid and nitrenoid insertion. Nature 451, 417–424.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tang, R.-Y., Li, G., Yu, J.-Q., 2014. Conformation-induced remote meta-C-H activation of amines. Nature 507, 215–220.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cook, P.J., Ju, B.G., Telese, F., Wang, X., Glass, C.K., Rosenfeld, M.G., 2009. Tyrosine dephosphorylation of H2AX modulates apoptosis and survival decisions. Nature 458, 591–596.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mory, M., 2013. Fluid Mechanics for Chemical Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA.

An edited book

Popper, A.N., 2014. ASA S3/SC1.4 TR-2014 Sound Exposure Guidelines for Fishes and Sea Turtles: A Technical Report prepared by ANSI-Accredited Standards Committee S3/SC1 and registered with ANSI, SpringerBriefs in Oceanography. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Pistone, G., Vicario, G., 2009. Design for Computer Experiments: Comparing and Generating Designs in Kriging Models, in: Erto, P. (Ed.), Statistics for Innovation: Statistical Design of “Continuous” Product Innovation. Springer, Milano, pp. 91–102.

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 Spanish Review of Financial Economics.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Alzheimer’s May Have Evolved Alongside Our Increasing Intelligence [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/alzheimers-may-have-evolved-alongside-our-increasing-intelligence/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1999. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Important Progress Made, Yet Much Work Remains to Avoid Disruption of Critical Services (No. T-AIMD-99-234). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Shan, J., 2014. A Theoretical Investigation of Radial Lateral Wells with Shockwave Completion in Shale Gas Reservoirs (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

ROBERT KELLY; Robert Kelly is a poet whose most recent collection of short fiction is “‘Doctor of Silence.’” He teaches at Bard College, 1989. LARGE, UNCONTAINABLE HEROINES. New York Times 73.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Butler, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Butler, 2001; Davies and Manning, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Davies and Manning, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Cook et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Spanish Review of Financial Economics
ISSN (print)	2173-1268
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance