How to format your references using the The Review of Financial Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Review of Financial Studies. 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

Brody, H. 2012. Graphene. Nature 483:S29.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cui, X.-D., and Y. Zheng. 2014. Unification of the Family of Garrison-Wright’s Phases. Scientific reports 4:5813.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ta, V. D., R. Chen, and H. D. Sun. 2013. Tuning Whispering Gallery Mode Lasing from Self-Assembled Polymer Droplets. Scientific reports 3:1362.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Schulze, E.-D., D. Mollicone, F. Achard, G. Matteucci, S. Federici, H. D. Eva, and R. Valentini. 2003. Climate Change. Making Deforestation Pay under the Kyoto Protocol? Science (New York, N.Y.) 299:1669.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Strome, T. L. 2013. Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Spiliopoulos, K., and D. Weichert, eds. 2014. Direct Methods for Limit States in Structures and Materials. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee, W. B., V. Shek, and B. Cheung. 2007. Auditing and Mapping the Knowledge Assets of Business Processes – An Empirical Study. In Zhang, Z. and In J. Siekmann (eds.), Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management: Second International Conference, KSEM 2007, Melbourne, Australia, November 28-30, 2007. Proceedings. . Lecture Notes in Computer ScienceBerlin, 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 Review of Financial Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. You Can Now Send Your Remains To The Moon. IFLScience IFLScience.

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. 2007. Residential Treatment Programs: Concerns Regarding Abuse and Death in Certain Programs for Troubled Youth.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

Wilkerson, K. 2010. A Comprehensive Educational Program for Male and Female Teen Parents: A Grant Proposal.Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kenigsberg, B. 2017. Film Series. New York Times .

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brody 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Brody 2012; Cui and Zheng 2014).

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

Two authors: (Cui and Zheng 2014)
Three authors: (Ta, Chen, and Sun 2013)
4 or more authors: (Schulze et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Review of Financial Studies
Abbreviation	Rev. Financ. Stud.
ISSN (print)	0893-9454
ISSN (online)	1465-7368
Scope	Accounting Economics and Econometrics Finance