How to format your references using the European Journal of Business and Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Business and Economics. 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

Hess, H. (2006). Materials science. Toward devices powered by biomolecular motors. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5775), 860–861.

A journal article with 2 authors

Han, J. S., & Boeke, J. D. (2004). A highly active synthetic mammalian retrotransposon. Nature, 429(6989), 314–318.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schön, J. H., Kloc, C., & Batlogg, B. (2000). Fractional quantum Hall effect in organic molecular semiconductors. Science (New York, N.Y.), 288(5475), 2338–2340.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Mistlberger, R. E., Yamazaki, S., Pendergast, J. S., Landry, G. J., Takumi, T., & Nakamura, W. (2008). Comment on “Differential rescue of light- and food-entrainable circadian rhythms.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5902), 675; author reply 675.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kolb, R. W. (2011). Sovereign Debt. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ambrosio, L. (2005). Gradient Flows: in Metric Spaces and in the Space of Probability Measures (N. Gigli & G. Savaré, Eds.). Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Bolatkale, M., Breems, L. J., & Makinwa, K. A. A. (2014). A 2 GHz Continuous-Time ΔΣ ADC with Dynamic Error Correction. In L. J. Breems & K. A. A. Makinwa (Eds.), High Speed and Wide Bandwidth Delta-Sigma ADCs (pp. 95–116). 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 European Journal of Business and Economics.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, April 14). Ceres’ Mystery Spots Are Even Stranger Than We Thought. 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. (2010). Forest Service Research and Development: Improvements in Delivery of Research Results Can Help Ensure That Benefits of Research Are Realized (GAO-11-12). 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

Quackenbush, C. M. (2010). The Imaginal Stone: Stories of self and world [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Lehman, S. (2016, November 11). The Big Try-On. New York Times, F4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hess, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Han & Boeke, 2004; Hess, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Han & Boeke, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Mistlberger et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Business and Economics
ISSN (print)	1804-5839
ISSN (online)	1804-9699
Scope