How to format your references using the Journal of Multinational Financial Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Multinational Financial Management. 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

Fauci, A.S., 2008. 25 years of HIV. Nature 453, 289–290.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li, G., Luo, Z.-X., 2006. A Cretaceous symmetrodont therian with some monotreme-like postcranial features. Nature 439, 195–200.

A journal article with 3 authors

Burstein, G.T., Hutchings, I.M., Sasaki, K., 2000. Electrochemically induced annealing of stainless-steel surfaces. Nature 407, 885–887.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rahul, P.R.C., Bhawar, R.L., Ayantika, D.C., Panicker, A.S., Safai, P.D., Tharaprabhakaran, V., Padmakumari, B., Raju, M.P., 2014. Double blanket effect caused by two layers of black carbon aerosols escalates warming in the Brahmaputra River Valley. Sci. Rep. 4, 3670.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Diab, W.W., Frazier, H.M., 2011. Ethernet in the First Mile. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gil, Y., Motta, E., Benjamins, V.R., Musen, M.A. (Eds.), 2005. The Semantic Web – ISWC 2005: 4th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2005, Galway, Ireland, November 6-10, 2005. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Davis, T.E., Tarcza, E.V., Munson, M.S., 2009. The Psychological Impact of Hurricanes and Storms on Adults, in: Cherry, K.E. (Ed.), Lifespan Perspectives on Natural Disasters: Coping with Katrina, Rita, and Other Storms. Springer US, New York, NY, pp. 97–112.

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 Multinational Financial Management.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. Larry The Mammoth’s Skull Is Confusing Paleontologists [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/larry-the-mammoths-skull-is-confusing-paleontologists/ (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, 1992. Federal Research: Small Business Innovation Research Program Shows Success but Can Be Strengthened (No. T-RCED-92-45). 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

Shen, H., 2009. Organization -employee relationships model: A two -sided story (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Kenigsberg, B., 2017. Boone. New York Times C10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fauci, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Fauci, 2008; Li and Luo, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Li and Luo, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Rahul et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Multinational Financial Management
Abbreviation	J. Multinatl. Financ. Manage.
ISSN (print)	1042-444X
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance