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

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

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Gingrich, N., 2000. SCIENCE PRIORITIES: An Opportunities-Based Science Budget. Science 290, 1303.
A journal article with 2 authors
Folkman, J., Camphausen, K., 2001. Cancer. What does radiotherapy do to endothelial cells? Science 293, 227–228.
A journal article with 3 authors
Catrysse, P.B., Liu, V., Fan, S., 2014. Complete power concentration into a single waveguide in large-scale waveguide array lenses. Sci. Rep. 4, 6635.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Porter, J.R., Challinor, A., Ewert, F., Falloon, P., Fischer, T., Gregory, P., Van Ittersum, M.K., Olesen, J.E., Moore, K.J., Rosenzweig, C., Smith, P., 2010. Food security: focus on agriculture. Science 328, 172–173.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Natsuno, T., 2005. i-Mode Strategy. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.
An edited book
Fleming, S.M., Frith, C.D. (Eds.), 2014. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Metacognition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
A chapter in an edited book
Stolzenburg, J.-U., Liatsikos, E.N., Schwalenberg, T., Häfner, T., Do, M., Orth, S., Wissing, F., Dalpiaz, O., Guballa, C., Truß, M.C., Sotelo Noguera, R., Astigueta, J.C., Morillo, E.H., Cortés, R.G., 2011. Miscellaneous, in: Stolzenburg, J.-U., Türk, I.A., Liatsikos, E.N. (Eds.), Laparoscopic and Robot-Assisted Surgery in Urology: Atlas of Standard Procedures. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 363–386.

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 Stability.

Blog post
Andrew, E., 2015. This Awesome Video Takes you on a Tour Inside the Human Heart [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/watch-awesome-video-tour-inside-human-heart/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2003. Federal Transit Administration: Bus Rapid Transit Offers Communities a Flexible Mass Transit Option (No. GAO-03-729T). 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
Liyakath, R.A., 2012. Reconfigurable Antenna and RF Circuits Using Multi-Layer Stretchable Conductors (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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
Belson, K., Pilon, M., 2012. Concern Raised Over Painkiller’s Use in Sports. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gingrich, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Folkman and Camphausen, 2001; Gingrich, 2000).

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

  • Two authors: (Folkman and Camphausen, 2001)
  • Three or more authors: (Porter et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Financial Stability
AbbreviationJ. Fin. Stab.
ISSN (print)1572-3089
ScopeGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Finance

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