How to format your references using the Global Finance Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Global Finance Journal. 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	Download the output style file
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

Abbott, A. (2003). Anthropologists cast doubt on human DNA evidence. Nature, 423(6939), 468.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eccleston, A., & Skipper, M. (2009). Transcribing the genome. Nature, 461(7261), 185.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, T. T., Parides, M. K., & Palese, P. (2012). Seroevidence for H5N1 influenza infections in humans: meta-analysis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6075), 1463.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Orosei, R., Lauro, S. E., Pettinelli, E., Cicchetti, A., Coradini, M., Cosciotti, B., Di Paolo, F., Flamini, E., Mattei, E., Pajola, M., Soldovieri, F., Cartacci, M., Cassenti, F., Frigeri, A., Giuppi, S., Martufi, R., Masdea, A., Mitri, G., Nenna, C., … Seu, R. (2018). Radar evidence of subglacial liquid water on Mars. Science (New York, N.Y.), 361(6401), 490–493.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mead, D. E. (2013). Becoming a Marriage and Family Therapist. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Canuto, C. (2005). Analisi matematica I: Teoria ed esercizi con complementi in rete (A. Tabacco, Ed.; 2a edizione). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Arshad, S. (2016). The Relationship Between Islamic Stock Markets and Business Cycles: A Regional Perspective. In N. Alam & S. A. R. Rizvi (Eds.), Islamic Capital Markets: Volatility, Performance and Stability (pp. 45–65). Springer International Publishing.

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 Global Finance Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, August 19). Factories In Space: How Extra-Terrestrial Industry Could Keep Humans Alive. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/factories-in-space-how-extraterrestrial-industry-could-keep-humans-alive/

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. (2017). School Bus Safety: Crash Data Trends and Federal and State Requirements (GAO-17-209). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hasan, S. N. (2012). Design and optimization of 2012 Formula SAE chassis with finite element analysis for CSULB [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

McKINLEY, J. C., Jr., & Alani, H. (2017, July 17). Man Who Pushed Passenger Who Died on Subway Tracks Is Acquitted. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2003; Eccleston & Skipper, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Eccleston & Skipper, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Orosei et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Global Finance Journal
Abbreviation	Glob. Fin. J.
ISSN (print)	1044-0283
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance