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

Check E (2007) Patenting the obvious? Nature 447:16–17

A journal article with 2 authors

Brinker CJ, Clem PG (2013) Materials science. Quartz on silicon. Science 340:818–819

A journal article with 3 authors

Attri AK, Kumar U, Jain VK (2001) Formation of ozone by fireworks. Nature 411:1015

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bailes E, Gao F, Bibollet-Ruche F, et al (2003) Hybrid origin of SIV in chimpanzees. Science 300:1713

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwedt G (2009) Chemie und Literatur - ein ungewöhnlicher Flirt. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Tanaka M (2012) Computational Biomechanics: Theoretical Background and Biological/Biomedical Problems. Springer Japan, Tokyo

A chapter in an edited book

Chernus-Mansfield N (2006) Breaking the News: The Role of the Physician. In: Wright KW, Spiegel PH, Thompson LS (eds) Handbook of Pediatric Neuro-Ophthalmology. Springer, New York, NY, pp 92–106

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

Fang J (2014) Ichthyosaur Graveyard Found Under Glacier In Chile. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ichthyosaur-graveyard-found-under-glacier-chile/. 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 (2000) Aviation Security: Vulnerabilities Still Exist in the Aviation Security System. 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

Michaels JL (2009) Changing cooperation to competition disrupts attitudes and valence: First test of a dynamical model. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic 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

Kishkovsky S (2010) WORLD BRIEFING | EUROPE; Russia: Forest Fires Declared as State of Emergency. New York Times A6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Check 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Check 2007; Brinker and Clem 2013).

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

Two authors: (Brinker and Clem 2013)
Three or more authors: (Bailes et al. 2003)

About the journal

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