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

Boyle, J. (2013). Biology must develop its own big-data systems. Nature, 499(7456), 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Loog, M., & Morgan, D. O. (2005). Cyclin specificity in the phosphorylation of cyclin-dependent kinase substrates. Nature, 434(7029), 104–108.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kinoshita, T., Wenger, T., & Weiss, D. S. (2004). Observation of a one-dimensional Tonks-Girardeau gas. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5687), 1125–1128.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Johnson, A. P., Cleaves, H. J., Dworkin, J. P., Glavin, D. P., Lazcano, A., & Bada, J. L. (2008). The Miller volcanic spark discharge experiment. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5900), 404.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ash, M. K. (2008). The Mary Kay Way. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Setou, M. (Ed.). (2010). Imaging Mass Spectrometry: Protocols for Mass Microscopy. Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Almestad, K. (2016). The Notion of ‘Opting Out.’ In C. Baudenbacher (Ed.), The Handbook of EEA Law (pp. 85–94). 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 Family Business.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, May 18). Self-Healing Concrete Repairs Its Own Cracks. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/self-healing-concrete-repairs-its-own-cracks/

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. (1988). Attack Warning: NORAD’s Communications System Segment Replacement Program Should Be Reassessed (IMTEC-89-1). 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

Gramajo, G. G. (2014). Guidance control of small UAV with energy and maneuverability limitations for a search and coverage mission [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

GEORGE GENE GUSTINES; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF. (2010, February 24). Superman’s Debut Comic Sells For $1 Million. New York Times, C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Boyle, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Boyle, 2013; Loog & Morgan, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Loog & Morgan, 2005)
Three authors: (Kinoshita et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Johnson et al., 2008)

About the journal

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