How to format your references using the Venture Capital citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Venture Capital. 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

McQuate, Grant T. 2014. “Green Light Synergistally Enhances Male Sweetpotato Weevil Response to Sex Pheromone.” Scientific Reports 4 (March): 4499.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ramsey, Jonathan M., and Frederick M. Chester. 2004. “Hybrid Fracture and the Transition from Extension Fracture to Shear Fracture.” Nature 428 (6978): 63–66.

A journal article with 3 authors

Komarneni, S., N. Kozai, and W. J. Paulus. 2001. “Environment. Superselective Clay for Radium Uptake.” Nature 410 (6830): 771.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Roch, Nicolas, Serge Florens, Vincent Bouchiat, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, and Franck Balestro. 2008. “Quantum Phase Transition in a Single-Molecule Quantum Dot.” Nature 453 (7195): 633–637.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhurin, Viacheslav V. 2011. Industrial Ion Sources. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Ranj Bar, Amin. 2014. Confidentiality and Integrity in Crowdsourcing Systems. Edited by Muthucumaru Maheswaran. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Missier, Paolo, Khalid Belhajjame, Jun Zhao, Marco Roos, and Carole Goble. 2008. “Data Lineage Model for Taverna Workflows with Lightweight Annotation Requirements.” In Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes: Second International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2008, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, June 17-18, 2008. Revised Selected Papers, edited by Juliana Freire, David Koop, and Luc Moreau, 17–30. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Venture Capital.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. 2017. “Protein From Mussel Glue Used To Help Prevent Scarring.” IFLScience. 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. 2007. Freight Railroads: Updated Information on Rates and Other Industry Trends. GAO-08-218T. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dooling, Shannon Marie. 2013. “Like A Unicorn in Captivity.” Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Steel, Emily, and Michael S. Schmidt. 2017. “O’Reilly Settled Claim, Then Got a New Fox Deal.” New York Times, October 21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McQuate 2014).
This sentence cites two references (McQuate 2014; Ramsey and Chester 2004).

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

Two authors: (Ramsey and Chester 2004)
Three authors: (Komarneni, Kozai, and Paulus 2001)
4 or more authors: (Roch et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Venture Capital
ISSN (print)	1369-1066
ISSN (online)	1464-5343
Scope	Finance