Scientific Reports 3, Article number: 1219 (2013); Published: 5 February 2013; Updated: 8 April 2013

Due to a typesetting error, both the authors’ affiliations and the citation in the PDF are incorrect. For the author Irena Vodenska, “Center for finance, law and policy, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 USA” was incorrectly listed as a current address rather than an affiliation. This error has now been corrected in the original Article. Furthermore, the author, Irena Vodenska, was omitted in the “How to Cite” section of the PDF. The correct citation appears below.

Huang, X., Vodenska, I., Havlin, S. & Stanley, H.E. Cascading Failures in Bi-partite Graphs: Model for Systemic Risk Propagation. Sci. Rep. 3, 1219; DOI:10.1038/srep01219 (2013).