How to format your references using the BRQ Business Research Quarterly citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for BRQ Business Research Quarterly. 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

Check, E., 2006. Biomedical funding remains flat. Nature 439, 644.

A journal article with 2 authors

Laurance, W.F., Luizão, R.C.C., 2007. Driving a wedge into the Amazon. Nature 448, 409–410.

A journal article with 3 authors

Woodroffe, R., Hedges, S., Durant, S.M., 2014. Ecology. To fence or not to fence. Science 344, 46–48.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

O’Hora, D., Dale, R., Piiroinen, P.T., Connolly, F., 2013. Local dynamics in decision making: The evolution of preference within and across decisions. Sci. Rep. 3, 2210.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Uriev, N.B., 2016. Technology of Dispersed Systems and Materials. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Bonato, A., Janssen, J. (Eds.), 2012. Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph: 9th International Workshop, WAW 2012, Halifax, NS, Canada, June 22-23, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Cañada, A., Villegas, S., 2015. Systems of Equations, in: Villegas, S. (Ed.), A Variational Approach to Lyapunov Type Inequalities: From ODEs to PDEs, SpringerBriefs in Mathematics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 95–118.

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 BRQ Business Research Quarterly.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2013. Ultra-Thin Membranes Could Lead To Chip-Sized Electroosmotic Pumps [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/ultra-thin-membranes-could-lead-chip-sized-electroosmotic-pumps/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2004. Homeland Security: Efforts Under Way to Develop Enterprise Architecture, but Much Work Remains (No. GAO-04-777). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Prietto, M., 2015. No place like home: The problem and the promise of the home psychotherapy office (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Clarke, J., 2017. The Ashes That Got Away. New York Times SP8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Check, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Check, 2006; Laurance and Luizão, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Laurance and Luizão, 2007)
Three or more authors: (O’Hora et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	BRQ Business Research Quarterly
ISSN (print)	2340-9436
Scope