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

Smaglik, P. (2005). Reversal of fortune. Nature, 433(7026), 663.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boos, W. R., & Kuang, Z. (2010). Dominant control of the South Asian monsoon by orographic insulation versus plateau heating. Nature, 463(7278), 218–222.

A journal article with 3 authors

Manoharan, H. C., Lutz, C. P., & Eigler, D. M. (2000). Quantum mirages formed by coherent projection of electronic structure. Nature, 403(6769), 512–515.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Jin, F., Zeng, X., Liu, J., Jin, Y., Wang, L., Zhong, H., et al. (2014). Highly efficient and autocatalytic H2₂ dissociation for CO₂ reduction into formic acid with zinc. Scientific reports, 4, 4503.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gordon, M. J., Jr. (2010). Total Quality Process Control for Injection Molding. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Atzeni, P., Cheung, D., & Ram, S. (Eds.). (2012). Conceptual Modeling: 31st International Conference ER 2012, Florence, Italy, October 15-18, 2012. Proceedings (Vol. 7532). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Acker, J. F., Berkels, B., Bredies, K., Diallo, M. S., Droske, M., Garbe, C. S., et al. (2008). Inverse Problems and Parameter Identification in Image Processing. In R. Dahlhaus, J. Kurths, P. Maass, & J. Timmer (Eds.), Mathematical Methods in Signal Processing and Digital Image Analysis (pp. 111–151). 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, D. (2016, October 11). Three Ways Organic Electronics Is Changing Technology As We Know It. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/three-ways-organic-electronics-is-changing-technology-as-we-know-it/. 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. (1976). Radiation Exposure from Diagnostic X-Rays Could Be Reduced (No. HRD-77-22). 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

Ouellette, R. L. (2008). Referral development results of relationship tie- strength for small business goal -directed networking groups (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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, J. (2017, June 6). Politics Beyond the Scripted. New York Times, p. C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Boos and Kuang 2010; Smaglik 2005).

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

Two authors: (Boos and Kuang 2010)
Three or more authors: (Jin et al. 2014)

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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