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

Macilwain, C. (2013). Halt the avalanche of performance metrics. Nature, 500(7462), 255.

A journal article with 2 authors

Prlic, M., & Bevan, M. J. (2006). Immunology. An antibody paradox, resolved. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5769), 1875–1876.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hwang, T. J., Carpenter, D., & Kesselheim, A. S. (2014). Target small firms for antibiotic innovation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6187), 967–969.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Short, P. J., McRae, J. F., Gallone, G., Sifrim, A., Won, H., Geschwind, D. H., et al. (2018). De novo mutations in regulatory elements in neurodevelopmental disorders. Nature, 555(7698), 611–616.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gu, X., Jiang, N., Ji, K., Li, H., Qiu, X., Li, W., et al. (2017). Self-healing Control Technology for Distribution Networks. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Marian Scott, E., Alekseev, A. Y., & Zaitseva, G. (Eds.). (2005). Impact of the Environment on Human Migration in Eurasia (Vol. 42). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Aguilella, V. M., Queralt-Martín, M., & Alcaraz, A. (2015). Bacterial Porins. In A. H. Delcour (Ed.), Electrophysiology of Unconventional Channels and Pores (pp. 101–121). Cham: 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 Global Business Perspectives.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 7). A Cargo Ship has Finally Docked with the ISS. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/russia-successfully-launches-progress-m-28m-spacecraft-supplies-iss/. 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. (1981). Award of Grant by Education (No. B-204905). 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

Bunkley, R. L. (2010). A mentoring program for adolescents in a placement facility: A grant proposal project (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Witz, B. (2017, March 15). A Button-Down Game Gets a Needed Pinch of Pizazz. New York Times, p. B18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain 2013; Prlic and Bevan 2006).

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

Two authors: (Prlic and Bevan 2006)
Three or more authors: (Short et al. 2018)

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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