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

Liljas A. Biochemistry. Getting close to termination. Science. 2008;322(5903):863-865.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nesbit J, Bradford M. 2006 Visualization Challenge. Science. 2006;313(5794):1729.

A journal article with 3 authors

Harding EJ, Paul ES, Mendl M. Animal behaviour: cognitive bias and affective state. Nature. 2004;427(6972):312.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang K, Xiao J, Peng B, et al. Retinal structure and function preservation by polysaccharides of wolfberry in a mouse model of retinal degeneration. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7601.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kill R. The BRC Global Standard for Food Safety. Wiley-Blackwell; 2012.

An edited book

Ghosh S, ed. Models in Software Engineering: Workshops and Symposia at MODELS 2009, Denver, CO, USA, October 4-9, 2009, Reports and Revised Selected Papers. Vol 6002. Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Yamanaka N, Hou QC, Du S. Vegetation of the Loess Plateau. In: Tsunekawa A, Liu G, Yamanaka N, Du S, eds. Restoration and Development of the Degraded Loess Plateau, China. Ecological Research Monographs. Springer Japan; 2014:49-60.

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

Fang J. Uncommon Virus Suspected in Severe Respiratory Illness in a Dozen States. IFLScience. Published September 10, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/uncommon-virus-suspected-severe-respiratory-illnesses-dozen-states/

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. Space Transportation System. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Huber JA. Building an Army: A Corollary Study of Group Interaction and Group Productivity. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University; 2012.

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

Megalogenis G. Australia’s leftward turn. New York Times. May 11, 2017:0.

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