How to format your references using the Global Business Perspectives citation style

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

Palmer, T. (2014). Climate forecasting: build high-resolution global climate models. Nature, 515(7527), 338–339.

A journal article with 2 authors

Higley, M. J., & Strittmatter, S. M. (2010). Neuroscience. Lynx for braking plasticity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6008), 1189–1190.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gavazzi, G., Bisio, A., & Pozzo, T. (2013). Time perception of visual motion is tuned by the motor representation of human actions. Scientific reports, 3, 1168.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

He, Y., Hou, L., Wang, H., Hu, K., & McConkey, B. (2014). A modelling approach to evaluate the long-term effect of soil texture on spring wheat productivity under a rain-fed condition. Scientific reports, 4, 5736.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Harper, C. (2005). Analytic Methods in Physics. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Velmezova, E., Kull, K., & Cowley, S. J. (Eds.). (2015). Biosemiotic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics (1st ed. 2015., Vol. 13). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Pandolfi, C., Mugnai, S., Azzarello, E., Masi, E., Pollastri, S., & Mancuso, S. (2012). The Vibrating Probe Technique in the Study of Root Physiology Under Stress. In S. Mancuso (Ed.), Measuring Roots: An Updated Approach (pp. 67–81). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Global Business Perspectives.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, November 10). Pluto’s Moons Behave Like Spinning Tops. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/plutos-moons-behave-spinning-tops-ke-editing/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1989). Biotechnology: Backlog of Patent Applications (No. RCED-89-120BR). 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

Austin, J. H. (2015). Performing the past: Two pageant traditions in Nauvoo, Illinois (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Hodara, S. (2016, June 4). The City of Lights, When It Was First Lighted. New York Times, p. CT8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Palmer 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Higley and Strittmatter 2010; Palmer 2014).

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

Two authors: (Higley and Strittmatter 2010)
Three or more authors: (He et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Global Business Perspectives
Abbreviation	Glob. Bus. Perspect.
ISSN (print)	2194-0061
ISSN (online)	2194-007X
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