How to format your references using the The Journal of Finance and Data Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Finance and Data Science. 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

Littman ML. Reinforcement learning improves behaviour from evaluative feedback. Nature. 2015;521(7553):445-451.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kepinski S, Leyser O. The Arabidopsis F-box protein TIR1 is an auxin receptor. Nature. 2005;435(7041):446-451.

A journal article with 3 authors

Klein Y, Efrati E, Sharon E. Shaping of elastic sheets by prescription of non-Euclidean metrics. Science. 2007;315(5815):1116-1120.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Monteverde M, Núñez-Regueiro M, Rogado N, et al. Pressure dependence of the superconducting transition temperature of magnesium diboride. Science. 2001;292(5514):75-77.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Larose DT. Data Mining Methods and Models. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

McBurney P, Rahwan I, Parsons S, Maudet N, eds. Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: 6th International Workshop, ArgMAS 2009, Budapest, Hungary, May 12, 2009. Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Vol 6057. Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Stankovic I, Voigt JU. Echocardiography in the Clinical Evaluation of Heart Failure: What Clinicians Need to know and Echocardiographers Should Report. In: Bartunek J, Vanderheyden M, eds. Translational Approach to Heart Failure. Springer; 2013:91-118.

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 The Journal of Finance and Data Science.

Blog post

Taub B. Nazi WW2 Codebreaking Machine Found On eBay For Just $14. IFLScience.

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. Aviation Safety: FAA Has Begun Efforts to Make Data More Publicly Available. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Lindeboom TN. A New Home for Transitioning Youth: A Grant Proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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

Marx L. A Love of Adventure Leads to Love Near Home. New York Times. June 2, 2017:ST11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Finance and Data Science
ISSN (print)	2405-9188
Scope