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

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

Whorton, M. (2014). Structural biology: Calcium-activated proteins visualized. Nature, 516(7530), 176–178.

A journal article with 2 authors

White, A. E., & Harper, J. W. (2012). Cancer. Emerging anatomy of the BAP1 tumor suppressor system. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6101), 1463–1464.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gong, Y., Mo, C., & Fraser, S. E. (2004). Planar cell polarity signalling controls cell division orientation during zebrafish gastrulation. Nature, 430(7000), 689–693.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tadokoro, S., Shattil, S. J., Eto, K., Tai, V., Liddington, R. C., de Pereda, J. M., Ginsberg, M. H., & Calderwood, D. A. (2003). Talin binding to integrin beta tails: a final common step in integrin activation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5642), 103–106.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shelton, T. (2013). Business Models for the Social Mobile Cloud. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Castellano, G., Jain, L. C., & Fanelli, A. M. (Eds.). (2009). Web Personalization in Intelligent Environments (Vol. 229). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jalabert, A., Amara, A., & Clermidy, F. (2008). Presentation of the Molecular Memory Cell. In A. Amara & F. Clermidy (Eds.), Molecular Electronics Materials, Devices and Applications (pp. 113–126). 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 European Journal of Family Business.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, February 14). Clovis People Were Ancestors to Nearly All Native Americans. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/clovis-people-were-ancestors-nearly-all-native-americans/

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. (1972). Improved Use of Cargo Space on Ammunition Ships by BetterPlanning (B-133025). 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

Le, D. (2015). L.A. Children’s Music Therapy Center, LLC [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

Alcindor, Y. (2017, July 7). ‘Auntie Maxine,’ House Veteran Who’s Had It Up to Here With Trump. New York Times, A13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Whorton, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (White & Harper, 2012; Whorton, 2014).

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

Two authors: (White & Harper, 2012)
Three authors: (Gong et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Tadokoro et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Family Business
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Fam. Bus.
ISSN (print)	2444-877X
Scope