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## Introduction

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All paid and exclusive research and reports created by roiquant are intended to be used internally by our customers. From time to time, customers and third parties will request to cite from the research in internal and external materials. Therefore, we prepared the following guidelines and rules.

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## Citation guidelines

If you publish any material based on any findings and/or datasets obtained from our [roiquant.com](https://www.roiquant.com/) and [viewpoints.roiquant.com](https://viewpoints.roiquant.com/), then all citations of roiquant must be attributed in the following or any major citation styles.

### APA style citation

We suggest the following pseudo-APA style citation format:

_With author_:-

Lee, P. (2020). _Why Did 500 Startups Shut Down?_ Retrieved 15 June 2020, from [https://viewpoints.roiquant.com/why-did-500-startups-shut-down/](https://viewpoints.roiquant.com/why-did-500-startups-shut-down/)

_With no author_:-

roiquant viewpoints. (2020). _Glossary of Business Failures._ Retrieved 15 June 2020, from [https://viewpoints.roiquant.com/glossary-of-business-failures/](https://viewpoints.roiquant.com/glossary-of-business-failures/)

### Harvard citation

We suggest the following Harvard

_With author_:-

Lee, P. 2020. _Why Did 500 Startups Shut Down?,_ viewed 15 June 2020,[https://viewpoints.roiquant.com/why-did-500-startups-shut-down/](https://viewpoints.roiquant.com/why-did-500-startups-shut-down/) .

_With no author_:-

roiquant viewpoints 2020. _Glossary of Business Failures_, viewed 15 June 2020,[https://viewpoints.roiquant.com/glossary-of-business-failures/](https://viewpoints.roiquant.com/glossary-of-business-failures/) .

### **Oxford citation**

We suggest the following Oxford citation format:

_With author_:-

Lee, P._,_ 'Why Did 500 Startups Shut Down?', _roiquant viewpoints,_ [https://viewpoints.roiquant.com/why-did-500-startups-shut-down/](https://viewpoints.roiquant.com/why-did-500-startups-shut-down/), (accessed 15 June 2020)

_With no author_:-

Glossary of Business Failures, _roiquant viewpoints_, [https://viewpoints.roiquant.com/glossary-of-business-failures/](https://viewpoints.roiquant.com/glossary-of-business-failures/), (accessed 15 June 2020)

### Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) citation

We suggest the following IEEE citation format:

_With author_:-

P. Lee, _Why Did 500 Startups Shut Down?_, roiquant viewpoints, June 14, 2020. Accessed on: June 15, 2020. \[Online]. Available: [https://viewpoints.roiquant.com/why-did-500-startups-shut-down/](https://viewpoints.roiquant.com/why-did-500-startups-shut-down/)

_With corporate author_:-

roiquant, _Out of Stealth, Flipidea Unveils Its Business Idea Checker_, Flipidea Viewpoints, PGGMB Building, B.S.B., Brunei Darussalam, Aug. 22, 2019. Accessed on: June 15, 2020. \[Online]. Available: [https://viewpoints.roiquant.com/out-of-stealth-flipidea-unveils-its-business-idea-checker/](https://viewpoints.roiquant.com/out-of-stealth-flipidea-unveils-its-business-failure-rate-calculator/)

_With no author_:-

_"Glossary of Business Failures,"_ May 20, 2019. Accessed on: June 15, 2020. \[Online]. Available: [https://viewpoints.roiquant.com/glossary-of-business-failures/](https://viewpoints.roiquant.com/glossary-of-business-failures/)

**Note: where there is no author, use the web source title enclosed in double quotation marks.**

### BiBTeX citation

We suggest the following BiBTeX citation format:

@misc{Lee:2020,\
author = "Lee, Paul",\
year = "2020",\
title = "Why did 500 startups shut down?",\
url = "<https://viewpoints.roiquant.com/why-did-500-startups-shut-down/> ",\
institution = "roiquant viewpoints" }

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## General Guidance

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### Primary publication

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### Permissions

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The following guidelines set forth the rules for such usage:

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