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

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

Seife, C.: ASTRONOMY: Brown Dwarf’s Flare Opens X-ray Eyes. Science. 289, 373a–4a (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Palmer, L., Lynch, G.: Neuroscience. A Kantian view of space. Science. 328, 1487–1488 (2010)

A journal article with 3 authors

Yuan, F., Depew, R., Soltis-Muth, C.: Ecosystem regime change inferred from the distribution of trace metals in Lake Erie sediments. Sci. Rep. 4, 7265 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mota, N.B., Furtado, R., Maia, P.P.C., Copelli, M., Ribeiro, S.: Graph analysis of dream reports is especially informative about psychosis. Sci. Rep. 4, 3691 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Le Doeuff, R., Zaïm, M.E.H.: Rotating Electrical Machines. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA (2013)

An edited book

Sintchenko, V. ed: Infectious Disease Informatics. Springer, New York, NY (2010)

A chapter in an edited book

Šunjić, V., Petrović Peroković, V.: Disconnection with Participation of Two Functional Groups. In: Petrović Peroković, V. (ed.) Organic Chemistry from Retrosynthesis to Asymmetric Synthesis. pp. 67–102. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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 Stochastics.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Schrödinger’s Cat Gets A Reality Check, https://www.iflscience.com/physics/schr-dinger-s-cat-gets-reality-check/

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: Adult Education Review. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1995)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Aldridge, K.N.: The Impact of Improved Teachers’ Classroom Management and Cultural Responsiveness on Student Behavior, (2015)

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

Sang-Hun, C., Fackler, M., Cowan, A.L., Sayare, S.: Greed Before the Fall, (2014)

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Finance and Stochastics
Abbreviation	Finance Stoch.
ISSN (print)	0949-2984
ISSN (online)	1432-1122
Scope	Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty Finance Statistics and Probability