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

Fiset, S., 2010. Comment on “Differential sensitivity to human communication in dogs, wolves, and human infants.” Science 329, 142; author reply 142.

A journal article with 2 authors

Galun, R., Ole-MoiYoi, O.K., 2003. Obituary: Thomas Risley Odhiambo (1931-2003). Nature 425, 142.

A journal article with 3 authors

Feng, Y., Zhang, S., Huang, X., 2014. A robust TALENs system for highly efficient mammalian genome editing. Sci. Rep. 4, 3632.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Janisch, C., Wang, Y., Ma, D., Mehta, N., Elías, A.L., Perea-López, N., Terrones, M., Crespi, V., Liu, Z., 2014. Extraordinary Second Harmonic Generation in tungsten disulfide monolayers. Sci. Rep. 4, 5530.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bécherrawy, T., 2012. Mechanical and Electromagnetic Vibrations and Waves. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Einav, G. (Ed.), 2015. The New World of Transitioned Media: Digital Realignment and Industry Transformation, The Economics of Information, Communication, and Entertainment, The Impacts of Digital Technology in the 21st Century. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Wetzel, S.G., Kollmann, T., 2009. Neurotuberculosis, in: Hähnel, S. (Ed.), Inflammatory Diseases of the Brain, Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 75–83.

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

Andrews, R., 2016. The US Army Is Developing “Dragon Silk” Body Armor Using Genetically Engineered Silkworms [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/the-us-army-is-developing-dragon-silk-body-armor-using-genetically-engineered-silkworms/ (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, 2012. Public Transit: Funding for New Starts and Small Starts Projects, October 2004 through June 2012 (No. GAO-13-40). 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

Pena, H., 2017. Long-Term Effects of Post-Fire Forest Structure on Understory Vegetation in Larch Forests of the Siberian Arctic (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Hodara, S., 2015. Escaping the Past, or Embracing It Before It Fades. New York Times WE9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fiset, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Fiset, 2010; Galun and Ole-MoiYoi, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Galun and Ole-MoiYoi, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Janisch et al., 2014)

About the journal

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