How to format your references using the International Review of Economics and Finance citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Review of Economics and Finance. 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

Paige, D. A. (2001). Planetary science. Global change on Mars? Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5549), 2107–2108.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chase, M. W., & Fay, M. F. (2009). Ecology. Barcoding of plants and fungi. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5941), 682–683.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yang, D.-S., Lao, C., & Zewail, A. H. (2008). 4D electron diffraction reveals correlated unidirectional behavior in zinc oxide nanowires. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5896), 1660–1664.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Törnroth-Horsefield, S., Wang, Y., Hedfalk, K., Johanson, U., Karlsson, M., Tajkhorshid, E., Neutze, R., & Kjellbom, P. (2006). Structural mechanism of plant aquaporin gating. Nature, 439(7077), 688–694.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anwar, S., & Carroll, J. J. (2016). Carbon Dioxide Thermodynamic Properties Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Möller, B. (2007). Uncertainty Forecasting in Engineering (U. Reuter, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gwathmey, F. W., & Byrd, J. W. T. (2014). Hip Pathology That Can Cause Groin Pain in Athletes: Diagnosis and Management. In D. R. Diduch & L. M. Brunt (Eds.), Sports Hernia and Athletic Pubalgia: Diagnosis and Treatment (pp. 31–54). Springer US.

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 Review of Economics and Finance.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2016, July 8). Most Antidepressant Medications Don’t Work For Children And Teens, Claims Study. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/most-antidepressant-medications-dont-work-for-children-and-teens-claims-study/

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). Technology Transfer: Federal Laboratory Consortium Should Increase Communication with Potential Customers to Improve Initiatives (GAO-15-127). 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

Coles, J. (2017). The Balancing of Parental Support and Pressure in Fostering Collegiate Athletes [Doctoral dissertation]. Northcentral University.

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

Hodgman, J. (2017, October 13). Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times, MM22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Paige, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Chase & Fay, 2009; Paige, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Chase & Fay, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Törnroth-Horsefield et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Review of Economics and Finance
ISSN (print)	1059-0560
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance