How to format your references using the Review of Derivatives Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Review of Derivatives Research. 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

Page, D. P. (2008). Comment on “Athabasca Valles, Mars: a lava-draped channel system.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5883), 1588; author reply 1588.

A journal article with 2 authors

Møller-Jensen, J., & Gerdes, K. (2004). Microbiology. Dynamic instability of a bacterial engine. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5698), 987–989.

A journal article with 3 authors

McCulloh, K. A., Sperry, J. S., & Adler, F. R. (2003). Water transport in plants obeys Murray’s law. Nature, 421(6926), 939–942.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lee, H. N., Christen, H. M., Chisholm, M. F., Rouleau, C. M., & Lowndes, D. H. (2005). Strong polarization enhancement in asymmetric three-component ferroelectric superlattices. Nature, 433(7024), 395–399.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Birla, R. (2014). Introduction to Tissue Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Browning, D. J. (Ed.). (2010). Diabetic Retinopathy: Evidence-Based Management. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Takahashi, Y., Ariga, D., Fan, Q., & Kashiwabara, T. (2015). Systematics of Distributions of Various Elements Between Ferromanganese Oxides and Seawater from Natural Observation, Thermodynamics, and Structures. In J.-I. Ishibashi, K. Okino, & M. Sunamura (Eds.), Subseafloor Biosphere Linked to Hydrothermal Systems: TAIGA Concept (pp. 39–48). Tokyo: Springer Japan.

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 Review of Derivatives Research.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2017, June 8). North Korea Mocks America For Pulling Out Of Paris Agreement. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/north-korea-mocks-america-pulling-out-paris-agreement/. Accessed 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. (1977). Proposed Facility Requirements for the National Center for Toxicological Research and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (No. HRD-78-29). 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

Deshotel, M. W. (2017). Enhancing Undergraduate Water Resources Engineering Education Using Data and Modeling Resources Situated in Real-world Ecosystems: Design Principles and Challenges for Scaling and Sustainability (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2008, January 19). Justices Add More Cases On Job Discrimination. New York Times, p. A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Page 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Møller-Jensen and Gerdes 2004; Page 2008).

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

Two authors: (Møller-Jensen and Gerdes 2004)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of Derivatives Research
Abbreviation	Rev. Deriv. Res.
ISSN (print)	1380-6645
ISSN (online)	1573-7144
Scope	Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) Finance