How to format your references using the European research on management and business economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European research on management and business 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

Collins, F. (2010). Scientists need a shorter path to research freedom. Nature, 467(7316), 635.

A journal article with 2 authors

Morris, T., & Podsiadlowski, P. (2007). The triple-ring nebula around SN 1987A: fingerprint of a binary merger. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5815), 1103–1106.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hastings, I. M., Bray, P. G., & Ward, S. A. (2002). Parasitology. A requiem for chloroquine. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5591), 74–75.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zhou, X., Ling, X., Zhang, Z., Luo, H., & Wen, S. (2014). Observation of spin Hall effect in photon tunneling via weak measurements. Scientific Reports, 4, 7388.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mattone, J., & Vaidya, N. (2016). Cultural Transformations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Nikulin, M. (2016). The Cox Model and Its Applications (H.-D. I. Wu, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Norrie, M. C. (2011). Desktop, Tabletop or Mobile? In S. Ceri & M. Brambilla (Eds.), Search Computing: Trends and Developments (pp. 46–52). 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 European research on management and business economics.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, August 18). Egyptian Mummy Of Member Of The Wealthy Elite Discovered In A Tomb Near River Nile. 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. (1992). Aviation Safety: Slow Progress, Uncertain Future Threaten FAA Program To Measure Safety (T-IMTEC-92-12). 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

Perlstein, J. A. (2014). Support for families affected by incarceration: A grant proposal [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

Walsh, M. W. (2015, April 5). James Wood, 85; Revived A.&P. Chain. New York Times, A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Collins, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Collins, 2010; Morris & Podsiadlowski, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Morris & Podsiadlowski, 2007)
Three authors: (Hastings et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Zhou et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	European research on management and business economics
ISSN (print)	2444-8834
Scope	Business and International Management Marketing Strategy and Management Economics and Econometrics