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

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

Seeliger, J.C. Scientists Must Be Taught to Manage. Nature 2012, 483, 511.

A journal article with 2 authors

Misra, S.; Froelich, P.N. Lithium Isotope History of Cenozoic Seawater: Changes in Silicate Weathering and Reverse Weathering. Science 2012, 335, 818–823.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lekic, V.; French, S.W.; Fischer, K.M. Lithospheric Thinning beneath Rifted Regions of Southern California. Science 2011, 334, 783–787.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tsuji, M.; Komatsu, N.; Kawamoto, S.; Suzuki, K.; Kanagawa, O.; Honjo, T.; Hori, S.; Fagarasan, S. Preferential Generation of Follicular B Helper T Cells from Foxp3+ T Cells in Gut Peyer’s Patches. Science 2009, 323, 1488–1492.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weinberg, M.A.; Segelnick, S.L.; Insler, J.S.; Kramer, S. The Dentist’s Quick Guide to Medical Conditions; John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ, 2015; ISBN 9781118991473.

An edited book

Focused Retrieval of Content and Structure: 10th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2011, Saarbrücken, Germany, December 12-14, 2011, Revised Selected Papers; Geva, S., Kamps, J., Schenkel, R., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; Vol. 7424; ISBN 9783642357336.

A chapter in an edited book

Maciocco, G.; Tagliagambe, S. What We Want or the Kitsch City and the City of Conformism. In People and Space: New Forms of Interaction in the City Project; Tagliagambe, S., Ed.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2009; pp. 31–39 ISBN 9781402098789.

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 Risk and Financial Management.

Blog post

Hale, T. eBay Auction Winner Gets To Name New Moth Species Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ebay-auction-winner-gets-name-new-moth-species/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Head Start and Even Start: Greater Collaboration Needed on Measures of Adult Education and Literacy; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2002;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gogri, D. Effect of Water Hardness on Adsorption of Lead From Aqueous Solutions Using Douglas Fir Biochar. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University: Mississippi State, MS, 2017.

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

Hanc, J. A Marathon Back Door That Leads to a Cause. New York Times 2016, SP5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Risk and Financial Management
Abbreviation	J. Risk Fin. Manag.
ISSN (online)	1911-8074
Scope