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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Wible B. 2012. Rio+20. Science for sustainable development. Science. 336(6087):1396

A journal article with 2 authors

Schmeing TM, Ramakrishnan V. 2009. What recent ribosome structures have revealed about the mechanism of translation. Nature. 461(7268):1234–42

A journal article with 3 authors

Lestas I, Vinnicombe G, Paulsson J. 2010. Fundamental limits on the suppression of molecular fluctuations. Nature. 467(7312):174–78

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sinnarajah S, Dessauer CW, Srikumar D, Chen J, Yuen J, et al. 2001. RGS2 regulates signal transduction in olfactory neurons by attenuating activation of adenylyl cyclase III. Nature. 409(6823):1051–55

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schober H. 2015. Transparent Shells. Berlin, Germany: Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG

An edited book

Zheng V. 2014. Gambling Dynamism: The Macao Miracle. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Jousselme A-L, Maupin P. 2012. An Evidential Pattern Matching Approach for Vehicle Identification. In Belief Functions: Theory and Applications: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Belief Functions, Compiègne, France 9-11 May 2012, eds. T Denoeux, M-H Masson, pp. 45–52. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

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 Annual Review of Financial Economics.

Blog post

Luntz S. 2014. Astronomers Discover Our Sun’s “Sibling.” IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 1977. Financial Difficulties and Funding at D-Q University. HRD-77-146, 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

Matos G. 2013. Re-fashioning goddesses: Exploring women’s archetypal fashion in the classroom. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Vecsey G. 2010. A Goal Apart in ’08, Face to Face Now. New York Times, July 7, , p. B14

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wible 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Schmeing & Ramakrishnan 2009; Wible 2012).

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

Two authors: (Schmeing & Ramakrishnan 2009)
Three or more authors: (Sinnarajah et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Financial Economics
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Fin. Econ.
ISSN (print)	1941-1367
ISSN (online)	1941-1375
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance