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

Zuk, M. (2006). Family values in black and white. Nature, 439(7079), 917.

A journal article with 2 authors

Abrahamsen, H., & Stenmark, H. (2011). Cell biology. Growth signaling from inside. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6056), 611–612.

A journal article with 3 authors

Volpe, G., Volpe, G., & Gigan, S. (2014). Brownian motion in a speckle light field: tunable anomalous diffusion and selective optical manipulation. Scientific Reports, 4, 3936.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Niestemski, F. C., Kunwar, S., Zhou, S., Li, S., Ding, H., Wang, Z., Dai, P., & Madhavan, V. (2007). A distinct bosonic mode in an electron-doped high-transition-temperature superconductor. Nature, 450(7172), 1058–1061.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson, R. K. (2012). Visual Data Mining. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Reinertsen, A. B. (Ed.). (2016). Becoming Earth: A Post Human Turn in Educational Discourse Collapsing Nature/Culture Divides. SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Alapati, S. R., Kuhn, D., & Padfield, B. (2011). Monitoring System Performance. In D. Kuhn & B. Padfield (Eds.), Oracle Database 11g Performance Tuning Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (pp. 113–145). Apress.

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

Davis, J. (2017, January 30). First Ever Fossil Of Trilobite With Eggs Discovered In New York. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/first-ever-fossil-of-trilobite-with-eggs-discovered-in-new-york/

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. (2015). Race to the Top: Survey of School Districts’ Capacity to Implement Reform (GAO-15-317SP, April 2015), an E-supplement to GAO-15-295 (GAO-15-317SP). 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

Tuinenga, J. M. (2010). John Corigliano’s Sonata for violin and piano: An analysis of context, structure, and style [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

Sisario, B. (2016, October 3). With Vinyl, Creating a Physical Presence. New York Times, B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zuk, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Abrahamsen & Stenmark, 2011; Zuk, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Abrahamsen & Stenmark, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Niestemski et al., 2007)

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