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

Monroe, C. (2002). Quantum information processing with atoms and photons. Nature, 416(6877), 238–246.

A journal article with 2 authors

Entcheva, E., & Williams, J. C. (2014). Channelrhodopsin2 current during the action potential: “optical AP clamp” and approximation. Scientific reports, 4, 5838.

A journal article with 3 authors

Walsh, K. J., Richardson, D. C., & Michel, P. (2008). Rotational breakup as the origin of small binary asteroids. Nature, 454(7201), 188–191.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Morris, E. J., Ji, J.-Y., Yang, F., Di Stefano, L., Herr, A., Moon, N.-S., et al. (2008). E2F1 represses beta-catenin transcription and is antagonized by both pRB and CDK8. Nature, 455(7212), 552–556.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pardoe, I. (2006). Applied Regression Modeling. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ganai, M. K. (2007). SAT-Based Scalable Formal Verification Solutions. (A. Gupta, Ed.). Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Delahay, J. N., & Lauerman, W. C. (2011). Children’s Orthopedics. In S. W. Wiesel & J. N. Delahay (Eds.), Essentials of Orthopedic Surgery (pp. 173–251). New York, NY: 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

O`Callaghan, J. (2016, August 16). Asteroid Mining Company Reveals New Mission To Land On An Asteroid By 2020. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/asteroid-mining-company-reveals-new-mission-to-land-on-an-asteroid-by-2020/. 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. (1991). Aerospace Plane Technology: Research and Development Efforts in Europe (No. NSIAD-91-194). 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

Obi, C. N. (2012). Evaluation of feeding varying levels of digestible lysine on broiler breeder male reproductive characteristics and body weight changes (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2016, February 27). The Facts About Abortion Rights. New York Times, p. SR1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Monroe 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Entcheva and Williams 2014; Monroe 2002).

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

Two authors: (Entcheva and Williams 2014)
Three or more authors: (Morris et al. 2008)

About the journal

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