How to format your references using the Family Business Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Family Business Review (FBR). 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	Download the output style file
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

Russell, P. (2003). Photonic crystal fibers. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5605), 358–362.

A journal article with 2 authors

Guigó, R., & Valcárcel, J. (2015). RNA. Prescribing splicing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6218), 124–125.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pawlowski, B., Dunbar, R. I., & Lipowicz, A. (2000). Tall men have more reproductive success. Nature, 403(6766), 156.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Goldenberg, S. B., Landsea, C. W., Mestas-Nunez, A. M., & Gray, W. M. (2001). The recent increase in Atlantic hurricane activity: causes and implications. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5529), 474–479.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dubé, J., & Legros, D. (2014). Spatial Econometrics Using Microdata. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Amaldi, E. (2012). The Adventurous Life of Friedrich Georg Houtermans, Physicist (1903-1966). (S. Braccini, A. Ereditato, & P. Scampoli, Eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Johnson, M. S., Korcz, M., von Stackelberg, K., & Hope, B. K. (2009). Spatial Analytical Techniques for Risk Based Decision Support Systems. In A. Marcomini, G. W. Suter II, & A. Critto (Eds.), Decision Support Systems for Risk-Based Management of Contaminated Sites (pp. 1–19). Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 Family Business Review.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2016, June 28). Female Birds Sing To Tell Predators To Back Off. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/female-birds-sing-to-tell-predators-to-back-off/

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. (1978). Federal Direction Needed for Educating Handicapped Children in State Schools (No. HRD-78-6). Washington, DC: 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

Weissflug, K. G. (2009). Effects of Positive Behavior Support Programs on Student Behaviors (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Schwartz, J. (2016, October 11). A Climate Change Evangelist. New York Times, p. D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Russell, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Guigó & Valcárcel, 2015; Russell, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Guigó & Valcárcel, 2015)
Three authors: (Pawlowski, Dunbar, & Lipowicz, 2000)
4 or more authors: (Goldenberg et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Family Business Review
Abbreviation	Fam. Bus. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0894-4865
ISSN (online)	1741-6248
Scope	Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) Finance