How to format your references using the Journal of Financial Services Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Financial Services Research. 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

Kroes G-J (2008) Frontiers in surface scattering simulations. Science 321:794–797

A journal article with 2 authors

Insel TR, Landis S (2014) Allison Doupe (1954-2014). Nature 515:344

A journal article with 3 authors

Hägglund C, Grätzel M, Kasemo B (2003) Comment on “efficient photochemical water splitting by a chemically modified n-TiO2” (II). Science 301:1673; discussion 1673

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zilberman D, Coleman-Derr D, Ballinger T, Henikoff S (2008) Histone H2A.Z and DNA methylation are mutually antagonistic chromatin marks. Nature 456:125–129

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mackenzie AFD (2013) Places of Possibility. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Dunlap BJ (ed) (2015) Proceedings of the 1990 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Felici M (2007) Trust Strategies and Policies in Complex Socio-technical Safety-Critical Domains: An Analysis of the Air Traffic Management Domain. In: Guelfi N, Buchs D (eds) Rapid Integration of Software Engineering Techniques: Third International Workshop, RISE 2006, Geneva, Switzerland, September 13-15, 2006. Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 51–65

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 Journal of Financial Services Research.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) Male Spider Mutilates Females’ Genitalia To Prevent Her From Mating Ever Again. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/male-spider-mutilates-females-genitalia-prevent-her-mating-ever-again/. 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 (1989) Truck Safety: Implementation of the Single Driver’s License and Notification Requirements. 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

Zou X (2014) Magneto-optical properties of ferromagnetic nanostructures on modified nanosphere templates. 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

Belson K, Eligon J, Medina J (2017) Warm Welcome for Guests, and No Questions Asked About Their Bags. New York Times A14

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kroes 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Kroes 2008; Insel and Landis 2014).

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

Two authors: (Insel and Landis 2014)
Three or more authors: (Zilberman et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Financial Services Research
Abbreviation	J. Fin. Serv. Res.
ISSN (print)	0920-8550
ISSN (online)	1573-0735
Scope	Accounting Economics and Econometrics Finance