How to format your references using the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Behavioral and Experimental 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

Koenig, R., 2000. COMPUTER SCIENCE: Flushing Out Nasty Viruses in the Balkans. Science 289, 1863–1865.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rakoff-Nahoum, S., Comstock, L.E., 2014. Immunology: Starve a fever, feed the microbiota. Nature 514, 576–577.

A journal article with 3 authors

Robinson, C.V., Sali, A., Baumeister, W., 2007. The molecular sociology of the cell. Nature 450, 973–982.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Levison, H.F., Bottke, W.F., Gounelle, M., Morbidelli, A., Nesvorný, D., Tsiganis, K., 2009. Contamination of the asteroid belt by primordial trans-Neptunian objects. Nature 460, 364–366.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O’Neil, P.V., 2008. Beginning Partial Differential Equations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hassanien, A.E., Kim, T.-H., Kacprzyk, J., Awad, A.I. (Eds.), 2014. Bio-inspiring Cyber Security and Cloud Services: Trends and Innovations, Intelligent Systems Reference Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Swienty, O., Jahnke, M., Kumke, H., Reppermund, S., 2008. Effective Visual Scanning of Geographic Information, in: Sebillo, M., Vitiello, G., Schaefer, G. (Eds.), Visual Information Systems. Web-Based Visual Information Search and Management: 10th International Conference, VISUAL 2008, Salerno, Italy, September 11-12, 2008. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 19–30.

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 Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Woody Vines Reduce A Forest’s Ability To Buffer Climate Change [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1974. Need for Additional Bilingual Education Teachers and the Availability of Training Programs To Prepare Them for Classroom Service (No. B-164031(1)). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Douville, S., 2014. The lived experience of being a European wife to a U.S. Marine: A heuristic study (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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., 2009. Citing Taxes, Some Seek Fire District’s Demise. New York Times LI5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Koenig, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Koenig, 2000; Rakoff-Nahoum and Comstock, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Rakoff-Nahoum and Comstock, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Levison et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance
Abbreviation	J. Behav. Exp. Finance
ISSN (print)	2214-6350
Scope	Finance