How to format your references using the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA). 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

Penner, A. M. “Social Science. Gender Inequality in Science.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 347 (2015), 234–235.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schultz, R. M., and C. J. Williams. “The Science of ART.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 296 (2002), 2188–2190.

A journal article with 3 authors

Petit, R. J., F. S. Hu, and C. W. Dick. “Forests of the Past: A Window to Future Changes.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 320 (2008), 1450–1452.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, X.-J., P.-Z. Li, Y. Chen, Q. Zhang, H. Zhang, X. X. Chan, R. Ganguly, Y. Li, J. Jiang, and Y. Zhao. “A Rationally Designed Nitrogen-Rich Metal-Organic Framework and Its Exceptionally High CO(2) and H(2) Uptake Capability.” Scientific Reports, 3 (2013), 1149.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Joule, J. A., and K. Mills. “Heterocyclic Chemistry at a Glance.” Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Michelsen, J. “Service Virtualization: Reality Is Overrated.” (J. English, ed.):. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Manfrè, L. “CT-/X-Ray-Guided Technique in Posterior Lumbar Spine Fusion.” In Spinal Instability, L. Manfrè, ed. Cham: Springer International Publishing (2015), 61–80.

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 Financial and Quantitative Analysis.

Blog post

Davis, J. “Possible Evidence That Protein Linked To Alzheimer’s Is Transmissible.” IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/possible-evidence-proteins-linked-alzheimers-transmissible/. Accessed October 30, 2018. IFLScience.

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. “Public Transit: FTA’s Process for Overseeing Compliance with Federal Civil Rights Requirements Incorporates Key Federal Practices.” 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

Fisher, E. “Suffering God.” Doctoral dissertation, Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute. p.

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

Feeney, K. “QUICK BITE/Edison; Sandwich for Five?” New York Times, (2006), 14NJ24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Penner (2015)).
This sentence cites two references (Schultz, and Williams (2002); Penner (2015)).

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

Two authors: (Schultz, and Williams (2002))
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. (2013))

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
ISSN (print)	0022-1090
ISSN (online)	1756-6916
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