How to format your references using the The European Journal of Finance citation style

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

Lawrence, Peter A. 2008. “Retiring Retirement.” Nature 453 (7195): 588–590.

A journal article with 2 authors

Landisman, Carole E., and Barry W. Connors. 2005. “Long-Term Modulation of Electrical Synapses in the Mammalian Thalamus.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 310 (5755): 1809–1813.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kalas, Paul, James R. Graham, and Mark Clampin. 2005. “A Planetary System as the Origin of Structure in Fomalhaut’s Dust Belt.” Nature 435 (7045): 1067–1070.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Pascolo, Lorella, Alessandra Gianoncelli, Giulia Schneider, Murielle Salomé, Manuela Schneider, Carla Calligaro, Maya Kiskinova, Mauro Melato, and Clara Rizzardi. 2013. “The Interaction of Asbestos and Iron in Lung Tissue Revealed by Synchrotron-Based Scanning X-Ray Microscopy.” Scientific Reports 3 (January 2013): 1123.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sharon, Madhuri, and Maheshwar Sharon. 2015. Graphene. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Asher, Jana, David Banks, and Fritz J. Scheuren, eds. 2008. Statistical Methods for Human Rights. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Given-Wilson, Thomas, and Daniele Gorla. 2013. “Pattern Matching and Bisimulation.” In Coordination Models and Languages: 15th International Conference, COORDINATION 2013, Held as Part of the 8th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2013, Florence, Italy, June 3-5, 2013. Proceedings, edited by Rocco De Nicola and Christine Julien, 60–74. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, David Hutchison, Takeo Kanade, Josef Kittler, Jon M. Kleinberg, Friedemann Mattern, John C. Mitchell, Moni Naor, et al. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 The European Journal of Finance.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Are We Living In A Hologram?” IFLScience, IFLScience, April 28.

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. 1991. Tax System Modernization: Attention to Critical Issues Can Bring Success. T-IMTEC-91-8. 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

McCarthy, Barbara A. 2010. “Mentoring’s Critical Components: Four Traditional Teachers’, Four Alternate -Route Teachers’, and Four Mentors’ Perspectives.” Doctoral dissertation, Capella University.

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

Pilon, Mary. 2012. “Sculptured By Weights And a Strict Vegan Diet.” New York Times, January 4, 2012.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lawrence 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Lawrence 2008; Landisman and Connors 2005).

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

Two authors: (Landisman and Connors 2005)
Three authors: (Kalas, Graham, and Clampin 2005)
4 or more authors: (Pascolo et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	The European Journal of Finance
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Fin.
ISSN (print)	1351-847X
ISSN (online)	1466-4364
Scope	Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)