How to format your references using the Business Research citation style

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

Solow, Robert M. 2010. Retrospective. Paul A. Samuelson (1915-2009). Science (New York, N.Y.) 327: 282.

A journal article with 2 authors

Johnston, Robert J., Jr, and Claude Desplan. 2014. Interchromosomal communication coordinates intrinsically stochastic expression between alleles. Science (New York, N.Y.) 343: 661–665.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shcherbina, Andrey Y., Lynne D. Talley, and Daniel L. Rudnick. 2003. Direct observations of North Pacific ventilation: brine rejection in the Okhotsk Sea. Science (New York, N.Y.) 302: 1952–1955.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Man, Weining, Mischa Megens, Paul J. Steinhardt, and P. M. Chaikin. 2005. Experimental measurement of the photonic properties of icosahedral quasicrystals. Nature 436: 993–996.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sallaberry, Christian. 2013. Geographical Information Retrieval in Textual Corpora. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Esposito, Anna, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Antonietta M. Esposito, Gennaro Cordasco, Thomas Drugman, Jordi Solé-Casals, and Francesco Carlo Morabito, ed. 2016. Recent Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing. 1st ed. 2016. Vol. 48. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Mączkowski, Grzegorz, Robert Sitnik, and Jakub Krzesłowski. 2012. Data Acquisition Enhancement in Shape and Multispectral Color Measurements of 3D Objects. In Image and Signal Processing: 5th International Conference, ICISP 2012, Agadir, Morocco, June 28-30, 2012. Proceedings, ed. Abderrahim Elmoataz, Driss Mammass, Olivier Lezoray, Fathallah Nouboud, and Driss Aboutajdine, 27–35. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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 Business Research.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2016. Could This New Clock Redefine The Length Of A Second? IFLScience. IFLScience. June 14.

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. 2017. Tribal Transportation: Better Data Could Improve Road Management and Inform Indian Student Attendance Strategies. GAO-17-423. 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

Wickramage, Amritha Suhasini. 2013. Analysis of Magnaporthe oryzae homologs of Histoplasma capsulatum RYP genes. Doctoral dissertation, Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.

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, Ben. 2016. ‘Suicide Squad’ Soundtrack Is No. 1 Again. New York Times, August 23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Solow 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Solow 2010; Johnston and Desplan 2014).

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

Two authors: (Johnston and Desplan 2014)
Three or more authors: (Man et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Business Research
Abbreviation	Bus. Res.
ISSN (print)	2198-3402
ISSN (online)	2198-2627
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