How to format your references using the Procedia Economics and Finance citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Procedia Economics and 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

Cresko, W.A., 2008. Evolution. Armor development and fitness. Science 322, 204–206.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wu, L.-Q., Dickman, J.D., 2012. Neural correlates of a magnetic sense. Science 336, 1054–1057.

A journal article with 3 authors

MacDonald, M.P., Spalding, G.C., Dholakia, K., 2003. Microfluidic sorting in an optical lattice. Nature 426, 421–424.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kuzmich, A., Bowen, W.P., Boozer, A.D., Boca, A., Chou, C.W., Duan, L.-M., Kimble, H.J., 2003. Generation of nonclassical photon pairs for scalable quantum communication with atomic ensembles. Nature 423, 731–734.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hanzo, L., Liew, T.H., Yeap, B.L., 2005. Turbo Coding, Turbo Equalisation and Space-Time Coding. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Busch, P., 2016. Quantum Measurement, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Skrabanek, P., Majerík, F., 2016. Simplified Version of White Wine Grape Berries Detector Based on SVM and HOG Features, in: Silhavy, R., Senkerik, R., Oplatkova, Z.K., Silhavy, P., Prokopova, Z. (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence Perspectives in Intelligent Systems: Proceedings of the 5th Computer Science On-Line Conference 2016 (CSOC2016), Vol 1, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 35–45.

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 Procedia Economics and Finance.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Great White Shark Pops Up To Say Hello [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/close-encounter-shark-kind-australian-filmmaker-dave-riggs/ (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, 1996. VBA Information Technology Investment (No. AIMD-97-10R). 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

Saxena, M., 2010. Learner analysis framework for globalized e-learning (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Saslow, L., 2006. Suffolk and Nassau Fight Voting Machine Change. New York Times 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cresko, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Cresko, 2008; Wu and Dickman, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Wu and Dickman, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Kuzmich et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Procedia Economics and Finance
ISSN (print)	2212-5671
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