How to format your references using the European Business Organization Law Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Business Organization Law Review. 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

Linden H (2002) Circadian rhythms. A white collar protein senses blue light. Science 297:777–778

A journal article with 2 authors

Mather J, Mao M (2012) Astronomy: A conversation about observation. Nature 490:S5-7

A journal article with 3 authors

Glazier AM, Nadeau JH, Aitman TJ (2002) Finding genes that underlie complex traits. Science 298:2345–2349

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Cocheo V, Sacco P, Boaretto C, et al (2000) Urban benzene and population exposure. Nature 404:141–142

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Arduin P-E, Grundstein M, Rosenthal-Sabroux C (2015) Information and Knowledge System. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Walther C, Gupta DK (eds) (2015) Radionuclides in the Environment: Influence of chemical speciation and plant uptake on radionuclide migration, 1st ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Remuß V, Deeg C, Musial M, et al (2007) Autonomous Helicopters. In: Ollero A, Maza I (eds) Multiple Heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 111–146

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 European Business Organization Law Review.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Here’s What Happens To Your Brain When You Give Up Sugar For Lent. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1975) Problems in Administering Programs To Improve Law Enforcement Education. 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

Sullivan TJ (2017) Molecular Ecology, Disease Ecology, and Candidate Genes for Pathogen Resistance in the Blue Crab Callinectes sapidus. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Paulson M (2017) Idina Menzel Chooses An Off Broadway Stage. New York Times C3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Linden 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Linden 2002; Mather and Mao 2012).

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

Two authors: (Mather and Mao 2012)
Three or more authors: (Cocheo et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Business Organization Law Review
Abbreviation	Eur. Bus. Organ. Law Rev.
ISSN (print)	1566-7529
ISSN (online)	1741-6205
Scope	Business and International Management Law Political Science and International Relations