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

Roch, S. (2010). Toward extracting all phylogenetic information from matrices of evolutionary distances. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5971), 1376–1379.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sadler, P. M., & Tai, R. H. (2007). Transitions. The two high-school pillars supporting college science. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5837), 457–458.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shapiro, L., McAdams, H. H., & Losick, R. (2009). Why and how bacteria localize proteins. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5957), 1225–1228.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chretien, J. P., Gaydos, J. C., Malone, J. L., & Blazes, D. L. (2006). Global network could avert pandemics. Nature, 440(7080), 25–26.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barron, E. N. (2013). Game Theory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chen, Y., & Immorlica, N. (Eds.). (2013). Web and Internet Economics: 9th International Conference, WINE 2013, Cambridge, MA, USA, December 11-14, 2013, Proceedings (Vol. 8289). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Deines, A., Fuselier, J. G., Long, L., Swisher, H., & Tu, F.-T. (2016). Hypergeometric Series, Truncated Hypergeometric Series, and Gaussian Hypergeometric Functions. In E. E. Eischen, L. Long, R. Pries, & K. E. Stange (Eds.), Directions in Number Theory: Proceedings of the 2014 WIN3 Workshop (pp. 125–159). Springer International Publishing.

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

Hamilton, K. (2016, June 23). Low Testosterone May Make You A Better Father. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/low-testosterone-may-make-you-a-better-father/

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. (1996). Domestic Aviation: Changes in Airfares, Service, and Safety Since Airline Deregulation (T-RCED-96-126). 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

Senaga, K. A. (2016). Tasteless, cheap, and southern? The rise and decline of the farm-raised catfish industry [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State University.

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

Vecsey, G. (2011, May 1). Football’s Absolute Power Corrupts Colleges Absolutely. New York Times, SP10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Roch, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Roch, 2010; Sadler & Tai, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Sadler & Tai, 2007)
Three authors: (Shapiro et al., 2009)
6 or more authors: (Chretien et al., 2006)

About the journal

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