How to format your references using the Venture Capital citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Venture Capital. 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	Download the output style file
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

Park, Robert W. 2014. “Anthropology. Stories of Arctic Colonization.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 345 (6200): 1004–1005.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bland, Michelle L., and Morris J. Birnbaum. 2011. “Cell Biology. ADaPting to Energetic Stress.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 332 (6036): 1387–1388.

A journal article with 3 authors

Garner, Harold R., Lauren J. McIver, and Michael B. Waitzkin. 2013. “Research Funding: Same Work, Twice the Money?” Nature 493 (7434): 599–601.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Preston, Leiph A., Kenneth C. Creager, Robert S. Crosson, Thomas M. Brocher, and Anne M. Trehu. 2003. “Intraslab Earthquakes: Dehydration of the Cascadia Slab.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 302 (5648): 1197–1200.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tiwari, Ashutosh, Rosario A. Gerhardt, and Magdalena Szutkowska. 2016. Advanced Ceramic Materials. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Paolantonio, Pasquale. 2014. Imaging of Small Bowel, Colon and Rectum. Edited by Clarisse Dromain. A-Z Notes in Radiological Practice and Reporting. Milano: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Schnidman, Evan A., and William D. MacMillan. 2016. “Centralization: The Rise of Technocracy.” In How the Fed Moves Markets: Central Bank Analysis for the Modern Era, edited by William D. MacMillan, 31–38. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US.

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 Venture Capital.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Resurgent Pine Martens Could Be Good News For Red Squirrels.” IFLScience, IFLScience, August 27.

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. 1975. Federal Guidance Needed If Halfway Houses Are To Be a Viable Alternative to Prison. GGD-75-70. 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

Kelleher, Andrea. 2017. “Gendered Intent to Turnover Resulting from Workplace Bullying in Nursing and Medical Fields.” Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Poniewozik, James. 2016. “Reviving a Snow Globe Town and Its Comfortable Nostalgia.” New York Times, November 23, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Park 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Park 2014; Bland and Birnbaum 2011).

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

Two authors: (Bland and Birnbaum 2011)
Three authors: (Garner, McIver, and Waitzkin 2013)
4 or more authors: (Preston et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Venture Capital
ISSN (print)	1369-1066
ISSN (online)	1464-5343
Scope	Finance