How to format your references using the The Journal of Finance and Data Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Finance and Data Science. 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

Thomas C. Plant bar code soon to become reality. Science. 2009;325(5940):526.

A journal article with 2 authors

Barve A, Wagner A. A latent capacity for evolutionary innovation through exaptation in metabolic systems. Nature. 2013;500(7461):203-206.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu X, Zhou Z, Prum RO. Branched integumental structures in Sinornithosaurus and the origin of feathers. Nature. 2001;410(6825):200-204.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cohen SB, Graham ME, Lovrecz GO, Bache N, Robinson PJ, Reddel RR. Protein composition of catalytically active human telomerase from immortal cells. Science. 2007;315(5820):1850-1853.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hoppert M. Microscopic Techniques in Biotechnology. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

Garratt P, ed. The Cognitive Humanities: Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Hu J, Wang Z, Gao H. $$H_\infty $$ H ∞ Sliding Mode Observer Design for Nonlinear Time Delay Systems. In: Wang Z, Gao H, eds. Nonlinear Stochastic Systems with Network-Induced Phenomena: Recursive Filtering and Sliding-Mode Design. Springer International Publishing; 2015:119-142.

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 The Journal of Finance and Data Science.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. “Perfect Lens” Breakthrough Could Turn Your Smartphone Into An Ultra-Powerful Microscope. IFLScience. July 20, 2015.

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. Health Information Technology: HHS Is Pursuing Efforts to Advance Nationwide Implementation, but Has Not Yet Completed a National Strategy. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Holmberg MB. Alternative Nitrogen for Subsequent Southern Switchgrass (Panicum Virgatum L.) Production Using Cool-Season Legumes. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State University; 2014.

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

Rothenberg B. Hyperactive Latvian ‘Not Afraid of Anything’ Makes Final. New York Times. June 8, 2017:B11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	The Journal of Finance and Data Science
ISSN (print)	2405-9188
Scope