How to format your references using the Future Business Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Future Business Journal. 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

Hampsey, M. (2012). Molecular biology. A new direction for gene loops. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6107), 624–625.

A journal article with 2 authors

Abercrombie, R. E., & Ekström, G. (2001). Earthquake slip on oceanic transform faults. Nature, 410(6824), 74–77.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hopkins, M., Harrison, T. M., & Manning, C. E. (2008). Low heat flow inferred from >4 Gyr zircons suggests Hadean plate boundary interactions. Nature, 456(7221), 493–496.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Mintzes, J. J., Canas, A., Coffey, J., Gorman, J., Gurley, L., Hoffman, R., McGuire, S. Y., Miller, N., Moon, B., Trifone, J., & Wandersee, J. H. (2011). Comment on “Retrieval practice produces more learning than elaborative studying with concept mapping.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6055), 453; author reply 453.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Charalambides, C. A. (2016). Discrete q-Distributions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Beziau, J.-Y., Chakraborty, M., & Dutta, S. (Eds.). (2015). New Directions in Paraconsistent Logic: 5th WCP, Kolkata, India, February 2014 (1st ed. 2015, Vol. 152). Springer India.

A chapter in an edited book

Silvester, A. K., Jacobson, M. J., & Williams, H. C. (2013). Shorter Compact Representations in Real Quadratic Fields. In M. Fischlin & S. Katzenbeisser (Eds.), Number Theory and Cryptography: Papers in Honor of Johannes Buchmann on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (pp. 50–72). 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 Future Business Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 13). New Mapping Effort To Help Battle Lyme Disease. 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. (2002). Information Technology: DOD Needs to Improve Process for Ensuring Interoperability of Telecommunications Switches (GAO-02-681). 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

Wahl, S. E. (2008). Registered nurse preceptorship orientation: A study of the relationship between burnout rates of new graduates and number of preceptors worked with in the clinical orientation phase [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella University.

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

Kelly, D. (2000, July 16). Girl Scout. New York Times, 711.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hampsey, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Abercrombie & Ekström, 2001; Hampsey, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Abercrombie & Ekström, 2001)
Three authors: (Hopkins et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Mintzes et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Future Business Journal
Abbreviation	Futur. Bus. J.
ISSN (print)	2314-7210
Scope