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

Scott JF (2007) Applications of modern ferroelectrics. Science 315:954–959

A journal article with 2 authors

Ralph TC, Boyd RW (2007) PHYSICS. Better computing with photons. Science 318:1251–1252

A journal article with 3 authors

Colombani J, Andersen DS, Léopold P (2012) Secreted peptide Dilp8 coordinates Drosophila tissue growth with developmental timing. Science 336:582–585

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Williams PA, Cosme J, Vinkovic DM, et al (2004) Crystal structures of human cytochrome P450 3A4 bound to metyrapone and progesterone. Science 305:683–686

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Norris L (2014) Transplant Administration. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Wichert R, Eberhardt B (eds) (2011) Ambient Assisted Living: 4. AAL-Kongress 2011, Berlin, Germany, January 25–26, 2011. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Castegren E, Östlund J, Wrigstad T (2015) Refined Ownership: In: Bernardo M, Johnsen EB (eds) Formal Methods for Multicore Programming: 15th International School on Formal Methods for the Design of Computer, Communication, and Software Systems, SFM 2015, Bertinoro, Italy, June 15-19, 2015, Advanced Lectures. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 179–210

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) IPCC Advises “Almost Entirely” Eliminating Unrestricted Use of Fossil Fuels By 2100. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/ipcc-advises-almost-entirely-eliminating-unrestricted-use-fossil-fuels-2100/. 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) Intellectual Property: Federal Agency Efforts in Transferring and Reporting New Technology. 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

Larson SE (2014) A case of rational irrationality: Evidence of expressive interest bias in state e-commerce sales and use tax legislation. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana 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

Billard M (2010) Packing In Labels Galore. New York Times E5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Scott 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Scott 2007; Ralph and Boyd 2007).

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

Two authors: (Ralph and Boyd 2007)
Three or more authors: (Williams et al. 2004)

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

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