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

D’Emic MD. Comment on “Evidence for mesothermy in dinosaurs.” Science. 2015;348(6238):982.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mesterton-Gibbons M, Adams ES. Behavioral ecology. The economics of animal cooperation. Science. 2002;298(5601):2146-2147.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fu Q, Saltsburg H, Flytzani-Stephanopoulos M. Active nonmetallic Au and Pt species on ceria-based water-gas shift catalysts. Science. 2003;301(5635):935-938.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Giacomini KM, Krauss RM, Roden DM, Eichelbaum M, Hayden MR, Nakamura Y. When good drugs go bad. Nature. 2007;446(7139):975-977.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Flynn JR. How to Improve Your Mind. Wiley-Blackwell; 2012.

An edited book

Allemang R, De Clerck J, Niezrecki C, Blough JR, eds. Topics in Modal Analysis I, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 30th IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2012. Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Grossmann W, Moser C. Big Data—Integration and Cleansing Environment for Business Analytics with DICE. In: Karagiannis D, Mayr HC, Mylopoulos J, eds. Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling: Concepts, Methods and Tools. Springer International Publishing; 2016:103-123.

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

Andrew E. Researchers Develop Solar Cells From Old Car Batteries. IFLScience. August 18, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/researchers-develop-solar-cells-old-car-batteries/

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. Financial Audit: District of Columbia Highway Trust Fund’s Fiscal Years 1998 and 1997 Financial Statements. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lansdon J. A Policy Analysis of California’s Three Strikes Law of 1994. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Vecsey G. Suddenly, Jeter’s Not Fine. New York Times. June 15, 2011:B14.

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