How to format your references using the Green Finance citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Green Finance. 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

May M (2013) The spine. Nature 503: S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Teagle D, Ildefonse B (2011) Journey to the mantle of the Earth. Nature 471: 437–439.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jensen RB, Carreira A, Kowalczykowski SC (2010) Purified human BRCA2 stimulates RAD51-mediated recombination. Nature 467: 678–683.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang DD, Zhou W, Yan H, et al. (2013) Personalized prediction of EGFR mutation-induced drug resistance in lung cancer. Sci Rep 3: 2855.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zepernick H-J, Finger A (2005) Pseudo Random Signal Processing, West Sussex, England, John Wiley & Sons Ltd,.

An edited book

Ramachandran KM (2012) Stochastic Differential Games. Theory and Applications, Paris, Atlantis Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Stehlé D, Steinfeld R (2011) Making NTRU as Secure as Worst-Case Problems over Ideal Lattices, In: Paterson KG (Ed.), Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2011: 30th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Tallinn, Estonia, May 15-19, 2011. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 27–47.

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 Green Finance.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) IFLScience, Hefty Hedgehog Freed from Railings After Becoming Trapped Overnight, 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/hefty-hedgehog-freed-railings-after-becoming-trapped-overnight/.

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 (1982) Inquiry Into Allegations of Improprieties at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, 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

Walther RL (2017) Approaches to Stream Restoration: Practices in Missouri and Illinois.

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

Rothenberg B (2017) Engaged Players Are on Same Side, Even in Singles. New York Times SP5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Green Finance
ISSN (online)	2643-1092
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