How to format your references using the Green Finance citation style

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

Friedlingstein P (2008) A steep road to climate stabilization. Nature 451: 297–298.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee E-J, Groisman EA (2012) Control of a Salmonella virulence locus by an ATP-sensing leader messenger RNA. Nature 486: 271–275.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hollingsworth RG, Armstrong JW, Campbell E (2002) Caffeine as a repellent for slugs and snails. Nature 417: 915–916.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nasrin F, Rahman MA, Masuda A, et al. (2014) HnRNP C, YB-1 and hnRNP L coordinately enhance skipping of human MUSK exon 10 to generate a Wnt-insensitive MuSK isoform. Sci Rep 4: 6841.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kovalenko NP, Krasny YP, Krey U (2005) Physics of Amorphous Metals, Weinheim, FRG, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Kahraman C (Ed.) (2008) Fuzzy Engineering Economics with Applications, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Babin A, Figotin A (2016) The Maxwell Equations, In: Figotin A (Ed.), Neoclassical Theory of Electromagnetic Interactions: A Single Theory for Macroscopic and Microscopic Scales, London, Springer, 89–100.

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 Green Finance.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) IFLScience, Tesla Autopilot Helps Seriously Sick Man Drive To Hospital, 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/tesla-autopilot-helps-seriously-sick-man-drive-to-hospital/.

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 (1994) Weather Forecasting: Improvements Needed in Laboratory Software Development Processes, 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

Barbeau SJ (2012) A Location-Aware Architecture Supporting Intelligent Real-Time Mobile Applications.

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

Vecsey G (2010) More Than a Wizard. New York Times D1.

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	Green Finance
ISSN (online)	2643-1092
Scope