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

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

DeWeerdt, S., 2011. Food: The omnivore’s labyrinth. Nature 471, S22-4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yang, M., Liu, W.-M., 2014. The d-p band-inversion topological insulator in bismuth-based skutterudites. Sci. Rep. 4, 5131.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bland-Hawthorn, J., Harwit, A., Harwit, M., 2002. Astronomy. Laser telemetry from space. Science 297, 523.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, G.S., Qu, J.J., Li, X.Z., Wang, W.F., 2014. The sand-deposition impact of artificial gravel beds on the protection of the Mogao Grottoes. Sci. Rep. 4, 4341.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vignes, A., 2013. Extractive Metallurgy 3. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA.

An edited book

Lawson, H.A., van Veen, D. (Eds.), 2016. Developing Community Schools, Community Learning Centers, Extended-service Schools and Multi-service Schools: International Exemplars for Practice, Policy and Research. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Snow, C.C., Peccerelli, F.A., Susanávar, J.S., Robinson, A.G., Ochoa, J.M.N., 2008. Hidden in Plain Sight: X.X. Burials and the Desaparecidos in the Department of Guatemala, 1977–1986, in: Asher, J., Banks, D., Scheuren, F.J. (Eds.), Statistical Methods for Human Rights. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 89–116.

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 Spanish Review of Financial Economics.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2015. Molecules Have Been Built Using a Laser Beam for the First Time [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/molecules-have-been-built-using-laser-beam-first-time/ (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, 1997. Financial Audit: District of Columbia Highway Trust Fund’s 1996 Financial Statements (No. AIMD-98-30). 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

Bottorff, A.K., 2010. Evaluating summer school programs and the effect on student achievement: The correlation between Stanford-10 standardized test scores and two different summer programs (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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, M., 2014. Eat, Stretch, Turn Off Your Cellphone. New York Times TR1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (DeWeerdt, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (DeWeerdt, 2011; Yang and Liu, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Yang and Liu, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Spanish Review of Financial Economics
ISSN (print)	2173-1268
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance