How to format your references using the International Journal of Financial Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Financial Studies. 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

McQuate, G.T. Green Light Synergistally Enhances Male Sweetpotato Weevil Response to Sex Pheromone. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4499.

A journal article with 2 authors

Slakey, F.; Cohen, L.R. Stop Laser Uranium Enrichment. Nature 2010, 464, 32–33.

A journal article with 3 authors

Osborne, L.C.; Lisberger, S.G.; Bialek, W. A Sensory Source for Motor Variation. Nature 2005, 437, 412–416.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, B.; Eddaoudi, M.; Hyde, S.T.; O’Keeffe, M.; Yaghi, O.M. Interwoven Metal-Organic Framework on a Periodic Minimal Surface with Extra-Large Pores. Science 2001, 291, 1021–1023.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mascia, L. Polymers in Industry from A-Z; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2011; ISBN 9783527644032.

An edited book

Ischemic Stroke Therapeutics: A Comprehensive Guide; Ovbiagele, B., Ed.; 1st ed. 2016.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; ISBN 9783319177496.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, Z.; Pan, L.; Li, J.; Li, S.; Li, M.; Tang, J. Boosting to Build a Large-Scale Cross-Lingual Ontology. In Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing: Semantic, Knowledge, and Linked Big Data: First China Conference, CCKS 2016, Beijing, China, September 19-22, 2016, Revised Selected Papers; Chen, H., Ji, H., Sun, L., Wang, H., Qian, T., Ruan, T., Eds.; Communications in Computer and Information Science; Springer: Singapore, 2016; pp. 41–53 ISBN 9789811031670.

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 International Journal of Financial Studies.

Blog post

Andrews, R. Cancer Expert On AHCA: “This Bill Will Make America Sicker” Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/cancer-expert-ahca-bill-america-sicker/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 Information Technology: Actions Needed to Fully Establish Program Management Capability for VA’s Financial and Logistics Initiative; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2009;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yoon, T. Object Recognition Based on Multi-Agent Spatial Reasoning. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University: Columbus, OH, 2008.

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

Baker, P.; Vogel, K.P. Lawyers Clash Over Strategy By West Wing. New York Times 2017, A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Financial Studies
Abbreviation	Int. J. Fin. Stud.
ISSN (online)	2227-7072
Scope