How to format your references using the Journal of Financial Services Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Financial Services Research. 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

Smith N (2008) A blast wave from the 1843 eruption of eta Carinae. Nature 455:201–203

A journal article with 2 authors

Coates JC, de Bono M (2002) Antagonistic pathways in neurons exposed to body fluid regulate social feeding in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature 419:925–929

A journal article with 3 authors

MacLehose L, McKee M, Weinberg J (2002) Responding to the challenge of communicable disease in Europe. Science 295:2047–2050

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yamamoto K, Higuchi M, Shiki S, et al (2002) Stepwise radial complexation of imine groups in phenylazomethine dendrimers. Nature 415:509–511

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Peat J, Elliott E, Baur L, Keena V (2002) Scientific Writing Easy when you know how. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London, WC

An edited book

Kamm J, Neumann B (eds) (2016) British TV Comedies: Cultural Concepts, Contexts and Controversies. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

A chapter in an edited book

Tompa P (2009) Bioinformatics Approaches to the Structure and Function of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins. In: Rigden DJ (ed) From Protein Structure to Function with Bioinformatics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 113–140

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 Journal of Financial Services Research.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Biodegradable Plastics From Waste Methane. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/biodegradable-plastics-waste-methane/. 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 (2017) NASA Commercial Crew Program: Schedule Pressure Increases as Contractors Delay Key Events. 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

Beck ES (2008) Waging war with words: Idealized gender and Iberian chivalry. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia 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

Protess B (2017) From the London Whale to Wells Fargo, a Bank Regulator Looks Back. New York Times B5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Coates and de Bono 2002; Smith 2008).

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

Two authors: (Coates and de Bono 2002)
Three or more authors: (Yamamoto et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Financial Services Research
Abbreviation	J. Fin. Serv. Res.
ISSN (print)	0920-8550
ISSN (online)	1573-0735
Scope	Accounting Economics and Econometrics Finance