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

Turner, John A. 2004. “Sustainable Hydrogen Production.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 305 (5686): 972–974.

A journal article with 2 authors

McMahon, Harvey T., and Jennifer L. Gallop. 2005. “Membrane Curvature and Mechanisms of Dynamic Cell Membrane Remodelling.” Nature 438 (7068): 590–596.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jordan, Stephen P., Keith S. M. Lee, and John Preskill. 2012. “Quantum Algorithms for Quantum Field Theories.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 336 (6085): 1130–1133.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Tuzzolino, Anthony J., Thanasis E. Economou, Ben C. Clark, Peter Tsou, Donald E. Brownlee, Simon F. Green, J. A. M. McDonnell, Neil McBride, and Melusine T. S. H. Colwell. 2004. “Dust Measurements in the Coma of Comet 81P/Wild 2 by the Dust Flux Monitor Instrument.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 304 (5678): 1776–1780.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Camman, Christelle, Claude Fiore, Laurent Livolsi, and Pascal Querro. 2017. Supply Chain Management and Business Performance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gundelfinger, Eckart D., Constanze I. Seidenbecher, and Burkhart Schraven, eds. 2006. Cell Communication in Nervous and Immune System. Vol. 43. Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Crowder, James A., John N. Carbone, and Russell Demijohn. 2016. “Systems Engineering Tools and Practices.” In Multidisciplinary Systems Engineering: Architecting the Design Process, edited by John N. Carbone and Russell Demijohn, 89–103. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Hamilton, Kristy. 2017. “Man Receives “Reprogrammed’ Stem Cells From Donor In Medical First.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/man-receives-reprogrammed-stem-cells-from-donor-in-medical-first/.

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. 1972. Training America’s Labor Force: Potential, Progress, and Problems of Vocational Education. B-164031(1). 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

Lee, Junghyun. 2012. “The Effects of Leadership Behavior on Workplace Harassment, Employee Outcomes, and Organizational Effectiveness in Small Businesses.” Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: George Washington University.

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

Markoff, John. 2016. “As Artificial Intelligence Evolves, So Does Its Criminal Potential.” New York Times, October 23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Turner 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Turner 2004; McMahon and Gallop 2005).

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

Two authors: (McMahon and Gallop 2005)
Three authors: (Jordan, Lee, and Preskill 2012)
4 or more authors: (Tuzzolino et al. 2004)

About the journal

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