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

Goldston, D., 2009. Innovation strategy. Nature 461, 585.

A journal article with 2 authors

Majumder, M.A., Cohen, C.B., 2009. Research ethics. The NIH draft guidelines on human stem cell research. Science 324, 1648–1649.

A journal article with 3 authors

Downs, J.A., Nussenzweig, M.C., Nussenzweig, A., 2007. Chromatin dynamics and the preservation of genetic information. Nature 447, 951–958.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lian, J., Yu, L., Liang, J.-Q., Chen, G., Jia, S., 2013. Orbit-induced spin squeezing in a spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate. Sci. Rep. 3, 3166.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fan, J., 2010. Multiscale Analysis of Deformation and Failure of Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Yin, X.-C., Mora, P., Donnellan, A., Matsu’ura, M. (Eds.), 2006. Computational Earthquake Physics: Simulations, Analysis and Infrastructure, Part I, Pageoph Topical Volumes. Birkhäuser, Basel.

A chapter in an edited book

Goto, T., Ikehata, A., 2015. Water Research by Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopy, in: Ozaki, Y., Kawata, S. (Eds.), Far- and Deep-Ultraviolet Spectroscopy. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 55–76.

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

Carpineti, A., 2016. Distant Quasars Have Halos That Defy Expectations [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1998. Aerospace Testing: Promise of Closer NASA/DOD Cooperation Remains Largely Unfulfilled (No. NSIAD-98-52). 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

Sinha, R., 2017. An Integrated Development Environment for the Clara Constraint-Programming Language (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

Sisario, B., 2017. Songkick Sells Name and Concert-Recommending Service. New York Times B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldston, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Goldston, 2009; Majumder and Cohen, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Majumder and Cohen, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Lian et al., 2013)

About the journal

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