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

Stoerig, P. (2006). Neuroscience. The impact of invisible stimuli. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5806), 1694–1695.

A journal article with 2 authors

Daubin, V., & Moran, N. A. (2004). Comment on “The origins of genome complexity.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5698), 978; author reply 978.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mishra, L., Derynck, R., & Mishra, B. (2005). Transforming growth factor-beta signaling in stem cells and cancer. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5745), 68–71.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Liu, K., Raghavan, S., Nelesen, S., Linder, C. R., & Warnow, T. (2009). Rapid and accurate large-scale coestimation of sequence alignments and phylogenetic trees. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5934), 1561–1564.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Salleh, S., Zomaya, A. Y., Olariu, S., & Sanugi, B. (2005). Numerical Simulations and Case Studies Using Visual C++.Net. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gervasi, O., & Gavrilova, M. L. (Eds.). (2007). Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2007: International Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 26-29, 2007. Proceedings. Part III (Vol. 4707). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Mucha, H.-J. (2014). Pairwise Data Clustering Accompanied by Validation and Visualisation. In W. Gaul, A. Geyer-Schulz, Y. Baba, & A. Okada (Eds.), German-Japanese Interchange of Data Analysis Results (pp. 47–57). Springer International Publishing.

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. (2014, June 17). Embryonic Stem Cells Show Promise As MS Treatment In Mice. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/embryonic-stem-cells-show-promise-ms-treatment-mice/

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. (1988). Medical ADP Systems: Composite Health Care System Operational Test and Evaluation Costs (IMTEC-88-18BR). 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

Cao, L. (2015). A Field-Scale Simulation of the Reversible Nanoparticle Adsorption for Enhancing Oil Recovery Using Hydrophilic Nanofluids [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Neuman, W. (2014, March 21). Mayor’s Ouster Is Approved in Colombia. New York Times, A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stoerig, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Daubin & Moran, 2004; Stoerig, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Daubin & Moran, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2009)

About the journal

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