How to format your references using the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. 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

Cobb, M., 2001. Wondrous order. Nature 413, 779.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dezhina, I., Graham, L.R., 2005. Research funding. Science foundations: a novelty in Russian science. Science 310, 1772–1773.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, P., Cohen, R.E., Haule, K., 2015. Effects of electron correlations on transport properties of iron at Earth’s core conditions. Nature 517, 605–607.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Könneke, M., Bernhard, A.E., de la Torre, J.R., Walker, C.B., Waterbury, J.B., Stahl, D.A., 2005. Isolation of an autotrophic ammonia-oxidizing marine archaeon. Nature 437, 543–546.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

El-Reedy, M.A., 2016. Project Management in the Oil and Gas Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Wiest, O., Wu, Y. (Eds.), 2012. Computational Organometallic Chemistry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Piña, B., Boronat, S., Casado, M., Olivares, A., 2009. Recombinant Yeast Assays and Gene Expression Assays for the Analysis of Endocrine Disruption, in: Barceló, D., Hansen, P.-D. (Eds.), Biosensors for Environmental Monitoring of Aquatic Systems: Bioanalytical and Chemical Methods for Endocrine Disruptors, The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 69–113.

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 Pacific-Basin Finance Journal.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Curiosity Rover Finds Evidence Of Liquid Water On Mars [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/weather-data-curiosity-rover-suggests-briny-water-possible-mars/ (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, 2005. Electronic Government: Funding of the Office of Management and Budget’s Initiatives (No. GAO-05-420). 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

Culumber, J.J., 2017. Physician Practice Survival: The Role of Analytics in Shaping the Future (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Gorman, J., 2017. A Deep Dive for Living Treasure. New York Times D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cobb, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Cobb, 2001; Dezhina and Graham, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Dezhina and Graham, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Könneke et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Pacific-Basin Finance Journal
ISSN (print)	0927-538X
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance