How to format your references using the Financial Innovation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Financial Innovation. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Childress L (2014) Physics. Diamond dynamics under control. Science 345:1247–1248

A journal article with 2 authors

Headlam D, Brown M (2007) Comment on “The geometry of musical chords.” Science 315:330; author reply 330

A journal article with 3 authors

Stefanová I, Dorfman JR, Germain RN (2002) Self-recognition promotes the foreign antigen sensitivity of naive T lymphocytes. Nature 420:429–434

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Pagani M, Caldeira K, Berner R, Beerling DJ (2009) The role of terrestrial plants in limiting atmospheric CO(2) decline over the past 24 million years. Nature 460:85–88

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pinoli J-C (2014) Mathematical Foundations of Image Processing and Analysis 1. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Aizawa K, Nakamura Y, Satoh S (eds) (2005) Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2004: 5th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Tokyo, Japan, November 30 - December 3, 2004. Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Song JY, Yu J, Chan WC (2015) Gene Expression Profiling in Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas. In: Evens AM, Blum KA (eds) Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma: Pathology, Imaging, and Current Therapy. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 97–123

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 Financial Innovation.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Watch A Man Deliver Three Baby Sharks From Dead Mother With Emergency C-Section. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-man-deliver-three-baby-sharks-dead-mother-emergency-c-section/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1979) Need for More Effective Audits of Federal Grants and Contracts Administered by Institutions of Higher Education. 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

Rodriguez JM (2011) A recruitment campaign for Latino non-kin foster parents: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Samuels D (2016) The Storyteller and the President. New York Times MM44

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Childress 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Headlam and Brown 2007; Childress 2014).

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

Two authors: (Headlam and Brown 2007)
Three or more authors: (Pagani et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Financial Innovation
ISSN (online)	2199-4730
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