How to format your references using the Review of Development Finance citation style

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

Neelakantan, S., 2013. Psychology: Mind over myocardium. Nature 493, S16-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ito, T., Okazaki, S., 2000. Pushing the limits of lithography. Nature 406, 1027–1031.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brennan, M.D., Cheong, R., Levchenko, A., 2012. Systems biology. How information theory handles cell signaling and uncertainty. Science 338, 334–335.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dror, I., Amitay, T., Yaron, B., Berkowitz, B., 2003. Salt-pump mechanism for contaminant intrusion into coastal aquifers. Science 300, 950.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lewis, R.J., Sr., 2008. Hazardous Chemicals Desk Reference, Sixth Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Yilbas, B.S., 2013. Laser Surface Processing and Model Studies, Materials Forming, Machining and Tribology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Tkachuk, N., Sokol, V., Glukhovtsova, K., 2013. An Integrated Development Framework for Advanced IT-Service Management: Proof-of-Concept Project in Universities Domain, in: Ermolayev, V., Mayr, H.C., Nikitchenko, M., Spivakovsky, A., Zholtkevych, G. (Eds.), Information and Communication Technologies in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications: 9th International Conference, ICTERI 2013, Kherson, Ukraine, June 19-22, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 50–69.

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 Development Finance.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2016. After Fatality, Autonomous Car Development May Speed Up [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1993. Deaf Education: Improved Oversight Needed for National Technical Institute for the Deaf (No. HRD-94-23). 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

Rooks, D.L., 2009. Science for all: Experiences and outcomes of students with visual impairment in a guided inquiry-based classroom (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Kelly, C., 2007. New Libraries That Don’t Just Go by the Book. New York Times WE9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Neelakantan, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Ito and Okazaki, 2000; Neelakantan, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Ito and Okazaki, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Dror et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of Development Finance
Abbreviation	Rev. Dev. Fin.
ISSN (print)	1879-9337
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance