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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Science. 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

Abbott, A. (2002). A physical response to architecture. Nature, 420(6912), 126.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brucker, R. M., & Bordenstein, S. R. (2013). The hologenomic basis of speciation: gut bacteria cause hybrid lethality in the genus Nasonia. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6146), 667–669.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hu, H., Martina, M., & Jonas, P. (2010). Dendritic mechanisms underlying rapid synaptic activation of fast-spiking hippocampal interneurons. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5961), 52–58.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Han, T. A., Pereira, L. M., Santos, F. C., & Lenaerts, T. (2013). Good agreements make good friends. Scientific Reports, 3, 2695.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carvalho, M. C. (2016). Practical Laboratory Automation. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Deutsch, A., Brusch, L., Byrne, H., Vries, G. de, & Herzel, H. (Eds.). (2007). Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems, Volume I: Cellular Biophysics, Regulatory Networks, Development, Biomedicine, and Data Analysis. Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Kellerman, H., & Burry, A. (2007). Reality Testing and Cognitive Functioning. In H. Kellerman & A. Burry (Eds.), Handbook of Psychodiagnostic Testing: Analysis of Personality in the Psychological Report (pp. 43–52). 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 Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Science.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2016, September 2). Manuka Honey Makes Bacteria Less Resistant To Antibiotics. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/manuka-honey-makes-bacteria-less-resistant-to-antibiotics/

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. (2008). Status of Implementation of GAO Recommendations on Evacuation of Transportation-Disadvantaged Populations and Patients and Residents of Health Care Facilities (GAO-08-544R). 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

Gu, J. (2010). Measurement, modeling, and synthesis of time-varying appearance of natural phenomena [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia 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

Baker, L. (2008, September 25). How Powerful Is Your Workout? New York Times, G9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2002; Brucker & Bordenstein, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Brucker & Bordenstein, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Han et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Science
ISSN (print)	2077-1886
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