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

Manoharan VN (2015) COLLOIDS. Colloidal matter: Packing, geometry, and entropy. Science 349:1253751

A journal article with 2 authors

Lambolez F, Rocha B (2001) Immunology. A molecular gut reaction. Science 294:1848–1849

A journal article with 3 authors

Nemoto S, Fergusson MM, Finkel T (2004) Nutrient availability regulates SIRT1 through a forkhead-dependent pathway. Science 306:2105–2108

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sureshkumar S, Todesco M, Schneeberger K, et al (2009) A genetic defect caused by a triplet repeat expansion in Arabidopsis thaliana. Science 323:1060–1063

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bachmann H, Steinle A (2012) Precast Concrete Structures. Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany

An edited book

Gottscheber A, Obdržálek D, Schmidt C (eds) (2010) Research and Education in Robotics - EUROBOT 2009: International Conference, La Ferté-Bernard, France, May 21-23, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Derezin S (2013) Buckling of Nonlinearly Elastic Plates with Microstructure. In: Altenbach H, Forest S, Krivtsov A (eds) Generalized Continua as Models for Materials: with Multi-scale Effects or Under Multi-field Actions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 65–76

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

Andrew D (2016) The Unbelievable Life Of The Forgotten Genius Who Turned Americans’ Space Dreams Into Reality. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-unbelievable-life-of-the-forgotten-genius-who-turned-americans-space-dreams-into-reality/. 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 (2002) FAA Alaska: Weak Controls Resulted in Improper and Wasteful Purchases. 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

Mark M (2017) A peer mentorship program for youth transitioning out of foster care: 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

Greenhouse L (2007) A Habeas Corpus Appeal Veers to Capital Issues. New York Times A18

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Manoharan 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Lambolez and Rocha 2001; Manoharan 2015).

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

Two authors: (Lambolez and Rocha 2001)
Three or more authors: (Sureshkumar et al. 2009)

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