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

Sarmiento EE (2010) Comment on the paleobiology and classification of Ardipithecus ramidus. Science 328:1105; author reply 1105

A journal article with 2 authors

Jean-Baptiste P, Fourré E (2004) Arctic Ocean: hydrothermal activity on Gakkel Ridge. Nature 428:36

A journal article with 3 authors

Girart JM, Rao R, Marrone DP (2006) Magnetic fields in the formation of sun-like stars. Science 313:812–814

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chen WP, He KF, Wang Y, et al (2013) Highly mobile and reactive state of hydrogen in metal oxide semiconductors at room temperature. Sci Rep 3:3149

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pijaudier-Cabot G, La Borderie C, Reess T, et al (2016) Electrohydraulic Fracturing of Rocks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Leicht KT, Jenkins JC (eds) (2010) Handbook of Politics: State and Society in Global Perspective. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Schlesinger TE (2015) Device Clinical Trials. In: Nasir A (ed) Clinical Dermatology Trials 101: A Primer for Dermatologists. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 59–72

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 E (2014) Researchers Identify Origin of Violent Gamma-Ray Outbursts. In: IFLScience. 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 (1999) Year 2000 Computing Challenge: DEA Has Developed Plans and Established Controls for Business Continuity Planning. 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

Eng R (2014) Exploring Investors’ Decision Making Processes During the 2008 Financial Crisis Using Epstein’s Cognitive Experiential Self-Theory: A Multiple-case Study. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral 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

Rothenberg B (2017) Tricky Draw, and Tricky Hip, Stand in Way of Murray’s Title Defense. New York Times D2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sarmiento 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Jean-Baptiste and Fourré 2004; Sarmiento 2010).

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

Two authors: (Jean-Baptiste and Fourré 2004)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2013)

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