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

Bertrand, C. A. (2001). Tech.Sight. Color by number: imaging large data. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5533), 1335–1336.

A journal article with 2 authors

Henikoff, S., & Malik, H. S. (2002). Centromeres: selfish drivers. Nature, 417(6886), 227.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ghaffari, H. O., Nasseri, M. H. B., & Young, R. P. (2014). Faulting of rocks in a three-dimensional stress field by micro-anticracks. Scientific Reports, 4, 5011.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Seidler, R. D., Purushotham, A., Kim, S.-G., Uğurbil, K., Willingham, D., & Ashe, J. (2002). Cerebellum activation associated with performance change but not motor learning. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5575), 2043–2046.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Glisic, S. G. (2011). Advanced Wireless Communications & Internet. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Pitkänen, P., Içduygu, A., & Sert, D. (Eds.). (2012). Migration and Transformation: Multi-Level Analysis of Migrant Transnationalism (Vol. 3). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Hamadicharef, B. (2011). International Collaborations in Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Research. In Z. Gong, X. Luo, J. Chen, J. Lei, & F. L. Wang (Eds.), Web Information Systems and Mining: International Conference, WISM 2011, Taiyuan, China, September 24-25, 2011, Proceedings, Part I (pp. 35–42). 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

Andrews, R. (2016, November 30). World’s Largest Exposed Fault Covers Area Twice The Size Of Belgium. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/worlds-largest-exposed-fault-twice-size-belgium/

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. (1981). Request for Comments on Proposed Amendment (B-203547). 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

Ithier-Guzman, W. (2010). Assessing the ability of soils and sediment to adsorb and retain cesium-137 in Puerto Rico [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, October 18). Deep Into the Wild With Jane Goodall. New York Times, C8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bertrand, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Bertrand, 2001; Henikoff & Malik, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Henikoff & Malik, 2002)
Three authors: (Ghaffari et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Seidler et al., 2002)

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