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

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

Lammert E (2008) Developmental biology. Brain Wnts for blood vessels. Science 322:1195–1196

A journal article with 2 authors

Berkman PA, Young OR (2009) Science and government. Governance and environmental change in the Arctic Ocean. Science 324:339–340

A journal article with 3 authors

Araki T, Sasaki Y, Milbrandt J (2004) Increased nuclear NAD biosynthesis and SIRT1 activation prevent axonal degeneration. Science 305:1010–1013

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ilayaraja R, Rajkumar R, Rajesh D, et al (2014) Evaluating the binding efficiency of pheromone binding protein with its natural ligand using molecular docking and fluorescence analysis. Sci Rep 4:5201

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

King JA, Timacheff S (2008) Digital Photography for Dummies®. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Rosendorff C (ed) (2006) Essential Cardiology: Principles and Practice, Second Edition. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ

A chapter in an edited book

Mobus GE, Kalton MC (2015) Complexity. In: Kalton MC (ed) Principles of Systems Science. Springer, New York, NY, pp 169–212

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 Economics and Finance.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Where Does Venom Come From? In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1988) [Comments on Agency Participation in SBIR Program]. 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

Huang Y-F (2013) The Effects of Two Methods on Training EFL University Students in Taiwan to Identify Three Non-Native Phonemic Contrasts. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State 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

McKINLEY JC Jr (2017) Not Guilty, at Least Here, Lawyer Says. New York Times A20

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lammert 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Lammert 2008; Berkman and Young 2009).

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

Two authors: (Berkman and Young 2009)
Three or more authors: (Ilayaraja et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Economics and Finance
Abbreviation	J. Econ. Fin.
ISSN (print)	1055-0925
ISSN (online)	1938-9744
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance