How to format your references using the Financial Innovation citation style

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

Coward F (2008) Archaeology. Standing on the shoulders of giants. Science 319:1493–1495

A journal article with 2 authors

Collins S, Bell G (2004) Phenotypic consequences of 1,000 generations of selection at elevated CO2 in a green alga. Nature 431:566–569

A journal article with 3 authors

Bi X, Corpina RA, Goldberg J (2002) Structure of the Sec23/24-Sar1 pre-budding complex of the COPII vesicle coat. Nature 419:271–277

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhitenev NB, Fulton TA, Yacoby A, et al (2000) Imaging of localized electronic states in the quantum Hall regime. Nature 404:473–476

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ersoy OK (2007) Diffraction, Fourier Optics and Imaging. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Chen J (2016) The Vixen Star Book User Guide: How to Use the Star Book TEN and the Original Star Book. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Ranathunga S, Cranefield S, Purvis M (2012) Integrating Expectation Monitoring into BDI Agents. In: Dennis L, Boissier O, Bordini RH (eds) Programming Multi-Agent Systems: 9th International Workshop, ProMAS 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, May 3, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 74–91

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 Financial Innovation.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) Strange Sighting Of Creepy Turkeys Forming A Marching Circle Around A Dead Cat. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1999) Federal Research Grants: Compensation Paid to Graduate Students at the University of California. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shen H (2009) Organization -employee relationships model: A two -sided story. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Poniewozik J (2016) In Battle of Candidates, Lauer Is the Loser. New York Times A16

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Coward 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Collins and Bell 2004; Coward 2008).

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

Two authors: (Collins and Bell 2004)
Three or more authors: (Zhitenev et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Financial Innovation
ISSN (online)	2199-4730
Scope