How to format your references using the International Tax and Public Finance citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Tax and Public 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	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

Romani, R. W. (2014). Astronomy. Pulsar beams--big and bright. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6180), 159–160.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mukhopadhyay, S., & Linstedt, A. D. (2012). Manganese blocks intracellular trafficking of Shiga toxin and protects against Shiga toxicosis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6066), 332–335.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chan, P., Curtis, R. A., & Warwicker, J. (2013). Soluble expression of proteins correlates with a lack of positively-charged surface. Scientific reports, 3, 3333.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Erwin, S. C., Zu, L., Haftel, M. I., Efros, A. L., Kennedy, T. A., & Norris, D. J. (2005). Doping semiconductor nanocrystals. Nature, 436(7047), 91–94.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cyr, K. S. (2010). Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 Administration. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Stanković, R. S. (2011). From Boolean Logic to Switching Circuits and Automata: Towards Modern Information Technology. (J. Astola, Ed.) (Vol. 335). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kniesel, G. (2009). Detection and Resolution of Weaving Interactions. In A. Rashid & H. Ossher (Eds.), Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development V (pp. 135–186). 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 International Tax and Public Finance.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, October 22). Remains Of Dying Planet Found Orbiting A White Dwarf Star For The First Time. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/remains-dying-planets-could-be-polluting-white-dwarf-stars/. Accessed 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. (1993). International Aviation: Measures by European Community Could Limit U.S. Airlines’ Ability to Compete Abroad (No. RCED-93-64). Washington, DC: 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

Schwartz, D. A. (2017). Safe Travels? An Examination of the Search and Rescue Policies and Capabilities in the Northwest Passage Region (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Bilefsky, D. (2012, October 29). Region’s Struggles Seen In a Romanian Scandal. New York Times, p. A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Romani 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Mukhopadhyay and Linstedt 2012; Romani 2014).

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

Two authors: (Mukhopadhyay and Linstedt 2012)
Three or more authors: (Erwin et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Tax and Public Finance
Abbreviation	Int. Tax Publ. Fin.
ISSN (print)	0927-5940
ISSN (online)	1573-6970
Scope	Accounting Economics and Econometrics Finance