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

Boyd, J., 2002. Tech.Sight. Robotic laboratory automation. Science 295, 517–518.

A journal article with 2 authors

Makiura, R., Konovalov, O., 2013. Interfacial growth of large-area single-layer metal-organic framework nanosheets. Sci. Rep. 3, 2506.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lu, D., Searles, M.A., Klug, A., 2003. Crystal structure of a zinc-finger-RNA complex reveals two modes of molecular recognition. Nature 426, 96–100.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Senju, A., Southgate, V., White, S., Frith, U., 2009. Mindblind eyes: an absence of spontaneous theory of mind in Asperger syndrome. Science 325, 883–885.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Traitler, H., Coleman, B., Hofmann, K., 2015. Food Industry Design, Technology and Innovation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Samelson, R.M., 2006. Lagrangian Transport in Geophysical Jets and Waves: The Dynamical Systems Approach, Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Bonefeld, C.M., Nielsen, M.M., Geisler, C., 2014. Immune Activity and Vitamin D, in: Thyssen, J.P., Maibach, H.I. (Eds.), Filaggrin: Basic Science, Epidemiology, Clinical Aspects and Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 37–47.

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

Taub, B., 2016. Being The Victim Of Sexual Cannibalism Is A Good Investment For Male Mantises [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/being-victim-sexual-cannibalism-good-investment-male-mantises/ (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, 2000. Aviation and the Environment: Results From a Survey of the Nation’s 50 Busiest Commercial Service Airports (No. RCED-00-222). 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

Arens, J.L., 2015. Power, Oppression, and Group Difference Interrogation: A Call to Social Justice Movement Organizations (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Shear, M.D., 2017. An Unusual Place for a President’s Family on a Foreign Trip: Center Stage. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Boyd, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Boyd, 2002; Makiura and Konovalov, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Makiura and Konovalov, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Senju et al., 2009)

About the journal

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