How to format your references using the Business Horizons citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Business Horizons. 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	Download the output style file
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

Augenbraun, E. (2005). Weapon of mass attraction. Nature, 433(7024), 357–358.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brubaker, S. W., & Monack, D. M. (2015). IMMUNOLOGY. Microbial metabolite triggers antimicrobial defense. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6240), 1207–1208.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hemingway, J., Field, L., & Vontas, J. (2002). An overview of insecticide resistance. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5591), 96–97.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zhou, T.-B., Qin, Y.-H., Lei, F.-Y., Huang, W.-F., & Drummen, G. P. C. (2013). Prohibitin is associated with antioxidative protection in hypoxia/reoxygenation-induced renal tubular epithelial cell injury. Scientific Reports, 3, 3123.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wood, T., Anderson, M., & Analytics, F. (2010). The Commercial Real Estate Tsunami. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jansen, P. G. W., & Roodt, G. (Eds.). (2015). Conceptualising and Measuring Work Identity: South-African Perspectives and Findings. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Köse, U., & Arslan, A. (2014). Design and Development of a Chaos-Based Image Encryption System. In S. Banerjee & Ş. Ş. Erçetin (Eds.), Chaos, Complexity and Leadership 2012 (pp. 23–28). Springer Netherlands.

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 Business Horizons.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2015, July 9). Mother Rabbit Attempts to Disembowel the Snake that Killed her Babies. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1992). The Job Training Partnership Act: Abuse of On-The-Job Training and Other Contracting Is an Ongoing Problem (T-HRD-92-47). 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

Lin, H.-C. (2013). Depression screening in ambulatory care [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

(nyt), S. K. (2004, November 30). World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Dalai Lama Arrives. New York Times, A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Augenbraun, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Augenbraun, 2005; Brubaker & Monack, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Brubaker & Monack, 2015)
Three authors: (Hemingway et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Zhou et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Business Horizons
Abbreviation	Bus. Horiz.
ISSN (print)	0007-6813
Scope	Business and International Management Marketing