How to format your references using the The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. 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

Myers, M. G., Jr. (2009). Cell biology. Moonlighting in mitochondria. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5915), 723–724.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liang, B. A., & Mackey, T. (2010). Health care policy. Reforming off-label promotion to enhance orphan disease treatment. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5963), 273–274.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hansel, D. E., Eipper, B. A., & Ronnett, G. V. (2001). Neuropeptide Y functions as a neuroproliferative factor. Nature, 410(6831), 940–944.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ohta, K., Onoda, S., Hirose, K., Sinmyo, R., Shimizu, K., Sata, N., et al. (2008). The electrical conductivity of post-perovskite in Earth’s D’’ layer. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5872), 89–91.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Böhm, M. (2005). Symmetrien in Festkörpern. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Boehncke, W.-H., & Radeke, H. H. (Eds.). (2007). Biologics in General Medicine. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Banavar, R. N., & Sankaranarayanan, V. (2006). Alternative Control Strategies for the NI. In V. Sankaranarayanan (Ed.), Switched Finite Time Control of a Class of Underactuated Systems (pp. 51–60). 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 Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 15). Jurassic World Reviewed By A Dinosaur Expert: It Isn’t Faithful To Science, But So What? IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (2016). Amtrak: Better Reporting, Planning, and Improved Financial Information Could Enhance Decision Making (No. GAO-16-67). 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

Brothers, J. (2009). Nonparametric regression using wavelet transformations and noise reduction in audio signals (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Brantley, B., & Green, J. (2017, July 12). What’s A Show Without Its Star? New York Times, p. C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Myers 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Liang and Mackey 2010; Myers 2009).

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

Two authors: (Liang and Mackey 2010)
Three or more authors: (Ohta et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics
Abbreviation	J. Real Estate Fin. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0895-5638
ISSN (online)	1573-045X
Scope	Accounting Economics and Econometrics Finance Urban Studies