How to format your references using the Asian Journal of Business Ethics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asian Journal of Business Ethics. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Service, R. F. (2000). BODY CHEMISTRY: Forensic Science on a Shoestring. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289(5481), 857.

A journal article with 2 authors

Robert, F., & Chaussidon, M. (2006). A palaeotemperature curve for the Precambrian oceans based on silicon isotopes in cherts. Nature, 443(7114), 969–972.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hauf, S., Waizenegger, I. C., & Peters, J. M. (2001). Cohesin cleavage by separase required for anaphase and cytokinesis in human cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5533), 1320–1323.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Mikkola, H. K. A., Klintman, J., Yang, H., Hock, H., Schlaeger, T. M., Fujiwara, Y., & Orkin, S. H. (2003). Haematopoietic stem cells retain long-term repopulating activity and multipotency in the absence of stem-cell leukaemia SCL/tal-1 gene. Nature, 421(6922), 547–551.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Acharya, V. V., Cooley, T. F., Richardson, M., & Walter, I. (2010). Regulating Wall Street. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Alpay, D., & Vinnikov, V. (Eds.). (2005). Operator Theory, Systems Theory and Scattering Theory: Multidimensional Generalizations (Vol. 157). Basel: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Dachs, B., & Zahradnik, G. (2008). Internationalisation of R&D in ICT. In H. Meijers, B. Dachs, & P. J. J. Welfens (Eds.), Internationalisation of European ICT Activities: Dynamics of Information and Communications Technology (pp. 157–185). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Asian Journal of Business Ethics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 20). Python Requires Emergency Surgery After Swallowing BBQ Tongs. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/peckish-python-swallows-bbq-tongs/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2006). Aviation Security: Transportation Security Administration Has Made Progress in Managing a Federal Security Workforce and Ensuring Security at U.S. Airports, but Challenges Remain (No. GAO-06-597T). 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

Mhatre, A. B. (2009). Zone-Clipper (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Apuzzo, M., & Schmidt, M. S. (2017, June 7). Comey Tells How Trump Persisted in Pleas to F.B.I. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Service 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Robert and Chaussidon 2006; Service 2000).

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

Two authors: (Robert and Chaussidon 2006)
Three or more authors: (Mikkola et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asian Journal of Business Ethics
Abbreviation	Asian J. Bus. Ethics
ISSN (print)	2210-6723
ISSN (online)	2210-6731
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