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

Weydt, P., 2000. Biomedical centre memorial to victims of Nazi research. Nature 403, 816.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rhee, H.S., Pugh, B.F., 2012. Genome-wide structure and organization of eukaryotic pre-initiation complexes. Nature 483, 295–301.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alimardani, M., Nishio, S., Ishiguro, H., 2013. Humanlike robot hands controlled by brain activity arouse illusion of ownership in operators. Sci. Rep. 3, 2396.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Han, J.-H., Kushner, S.A., Yiu, A.P., Cole, C.J., Matynia, A., Brown, R.A., Neve, R.L., Guzowski, J.F., Silva, A.J., Josselyn, S.A., 2007. Neuronal competition and selection during memory formation. Science 316, 457–460.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wierenga, E.R., 2016. The Philosophy of Religion. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Peng, X., Mingos, D.M.P. (Eds.), 2005. Semiconductor Nanocrystals and Silicate Nanoparticles, Structure and Bonding. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Doran, B.J., Burgess, M.B., 2012. Investigating Fear of Crime, in: Burgess, M.B. (Ed.), Putting Fear of Crime on the Map: Investigating Perceptions of Crime Using Geographic Information Systems. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 67–94.

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

Luntz, S., 2015. Your Mood Can Affect Your Ability To See Color [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/feeling-blue-makes-it-hard-see-blues/ (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, 2014. Mobile Devices: Federal Agencies’ Steps to Improve Mobile Access to Government Information and Services (No. GAO-15-69). 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

McKenzie, N.J., 2012. African/Black psychology: A qualitative investigation of distinguished Black psychologists (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Schmidt, M.S., Apuzzo, M., 2017. Comey Didn’t Want to Be Alone With President, He Told Sessions. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weydt, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Rhee and Pugh, 2012; Weydt, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Rhee and Pugh, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Han et al., 2007)

About the journal

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

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