How to format your references using the International Review of Financial Analysis citation style

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

Burns, M. A. (2002). Analytic chemistry. Everyone’s a (future) chemist. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5574), 1818–1819.

A journal article with 2 authors

Audet, P., & Bürgmann, R. (2014). Possible control of subduction zone slow-earthquake periodicity by silica enrichment. Nature, 510(7505), 389–392.

A journal article with 3 authors

Armstrong, A. A., Mohideen, F., & Lima, C. D. (2012). Recognition of SUMO-modified PCNA requires tandem receptor motifs in Srs2. Nature, 483(7387), 59–63.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Mayer, L., Quinn, T., Wadsley, J., & Stadel, J. (2002). Formation of giant planets by fragmentation of protoplanetary disks. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5599), 1756–1759.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Venkat, S., & Baird, S. (2016). Liquidity Risk Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Burkhardt, C. E. (2008). Foundations of Quantum Physics (J. J. Leventhal, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Sebastião, D., Martijn Kuipers, B. W., & Correia, L. M. (2015). Exposure Assessment in Heterogeneous Networks Accounting for up- and Downlinks. In R. Agüero, T. Zinner, M. García-Lozano, B.-L. Wenning, & A. Timm-Giel (Eds.), Mobile Networks and Management: 7th International Conference, MONAMI 2015, Santander, Spain, September 16-18, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 43–54). 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 International Review of Financial Analysis.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, June 3). Seals With Sensors on Their Heads Record Ocean Data in Harsh, Icy Waters. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/seals-sensors-their-heads-record-ocean-data-harsh-icy-waters/

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. (1998). Student Loans: Improvements in the Direct Loan Consolidation Process (HEHS-99-19R). 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

Abdeljaber, S. R. (2015). High school mathematics teachers’ perceptions of mathematics education in northwest Florida [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Saslow, L. (2007, February 25). State Court Blocks Synagogue’s Expansion. New York Times, 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Burns, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Audet & Bürgmann, 2014; Burns, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Audet & Bürgmann, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Mayer et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Review of Financial Analysis
Abbreviation	Int. Rev. Fin. Anal.
ISSN (print)	1057-5219
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance