How to format your references using the Finance and Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Finance and Society. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Chatenoud, L. (2014) Immunology. Teaching the immune system ‘self’ respect and tolerance. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6190): 1343–1344.

A journal article with 2 authors

Landskron, K. and Ozin, G. A. (2004) Periodic mesoporous dendrisilicas. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5701): 1529–1532.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ellis, A. S. et al. (2002) Chromium isotopes and the fate of hexavalent chromium in the environment. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5562): 2060–2062.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lai, Y. et al. (2014) Synaptotagmin 1 and Ca2+ drive trans SNARE zippering. Scientific reports, 4 4575.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moe, T. M. and Chubb, J. E. (2009) Liberating Learning. San Francisco, CA, USA: Jossey-Bass.

An edited book

Negro, R.W.D. and Goldberg, A.I. (eds.) (2005) Home Long-Term Oxygen Treatment in Italy: The Additional Value of Telemedicine. Milano: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ashyralyev, A. and Çekiç, F. (2016) On Source Identification Problem for Telegraph Differential Equations. In: Pinelas, S. et al. (eds.) Differential and Difference Equations with Applications: ICDDEA, Amadora, Portugal, May 2015, Selected Contributions. Cham: Springer International Publishing. 39–50.

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 Finance and Society.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2017) Falling In Love In Virtual Reality Could Be A Deeper Experience Than Real Life. IFLScience. Available at: <https://www.iflscience.com/technology/falling-in-love-in-virtual-reality-could-be-a-deeper-experience-than-real-life/>. Accessed 30 October 2018.

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 (2013) 911 Services: Most States Used 911 Funds for Intended Purposes, but FCC Could Improve Its Reporting on States’ Use of Funds. 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

Shambra, S. M. (2017) Automated Vulnerability Assessment of Mobile Device Vulnerabilities. [Doctoral dissertation] Mississippi State 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

Yancy, G. (2016) I Am a Dangerous Professor. New York Times, 30 November. SR7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chatenoud, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Chatenoud, 2014; Landskron and Ozin, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Landskron and Ozin, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Lai et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Finance and Society
ISSN (online)	2059-5999
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