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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Financial Stability. 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	Download the output style file
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

Savage, N., 2012. Materials science: Super carbon. Nature 483, S30-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mattaini, K.R., Vander Heiden, M.G., 2012. Cancer. Glycosylation to adapt to stress. Science 337, 925–926.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, K.H., Penmatsa, A., Gouaux, E., 2015. Neurotransmitter and psychostimulant recognition by the dopamine transporter. Nature 521, 322–327.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Seo, J.-K., Kwon, S.-J., Cho, W.K., Choi, H.-S., Kim, K.-H., 2014. Type 2C protein phosphatase is a key regulator of antiviral extreme resistance limiting virus spread. Sci. Rep. 4, 5905.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Micouin, P., 2014. Model-Based Systems Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Acedo, C., Adams, D., Popa, S. (Eds.), 2012. Quality and Qualities: Tensions in Education Reforms, Comparative and International Education, A Diversity of Voices. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

Wichmann-Hansen, G., Bach, L.W., Eika, B., Mulvany, M.J., 2012. Successful PhD Supervision: A Two-Way Process, in: Castanho, M.A.R.B., Güner-Akdogan, G. (Eds.), The Researching, Teaching, and Learning Triangle. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 55–64.

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 Stability.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Why Are Some Exploding Stars Fleeing Their Galaxies? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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. Tax Policy: Insufficient Information to Assess Effect of Tax Free Education Assistance (No. GGD-89-76). 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

Capobianco, V.J., 2017. Effect of slot height variation on the aerodynamic performance of a circulation control airfoil: A CFD analysis (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Shpigel, B., 2015. The Undoing of a Quiet Jet. New York Times SP1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Savage, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Mattaini and Vander Heiden, 2012; Savage, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Mattaini and Vander Heiden, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Seo et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Financial Stability
Abbreviation	J. Fin. Stab.
ISSN (print)	1572-3089
Scope	General Economics, Econometrics and Finance Finance