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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

McLeod, H. L. (2013). Cancer pharmacogenomics: early promise, but concerted effort needed. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6127), 1563–1566.

A journal article with 2 authors

Golder, S. A., & Macy, M. W. (2011). Diurnal and seasonal mood vary with work, sleep, and daylength across diverse cultures. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6051), 1878–1881.

A journal article with 3 authors

Danchin, E., Wajnberg, E., & Wagner, R. H. (2014). Avoiding pitfalls in estimating heritability with the common options approach. Scientific reports, 4, 3974.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Goldman, A. S., Roy, A. H., Huang, Z., Ahuja, R., Schinski, W., & Brookhart, M. (2006). Catalytic alkane metathesis by tandem alkane dehydrogenation-olefin metathesis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5771), 257–261.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heitz, E., & Kreysa, G. (2005). Grundlagen der Technischen Elektrochemie. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Tapper, T. (2010). The Collegial Tradition in the Age of Mass Higher Education. (D. Palfreyman, Ed.). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Fritzson, P., Broman, D., Cellier, F., & Nytsch-Geusen, C. (2008). Equation-Based Object-Oriented Languages and Tools Report on the Workshop EOOLT 2007 at ECOOP 2007. In M. Cebulla (Ed.), Object-Oriented Technology. ECOOP 2007 Workshop Reader: ECOOP 2007 Workshops, Berlin, Germany, July 30-31, 2007, Final Reports (pp. 27–39). 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, March 2). Researchers Uncover Potential Novel Treatment For Drug-Resistant TB. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (2009). Telecommunications: Current Broadband Measures Have Limitations and New Measures Are Promising but Need Improvement (No. GAO-10-49). 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

Phillips, T. L. (2012). “Outsider Within” Narratives of Diversity Leadership: An Exploratory Case Study of Executive Women of Color (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Johnson, G. (2014, September 23). A Future as Clouded as Their Past. New York Times, p. D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McLeod 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Golder and Macy 2011; McLeod 2013).

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

Two authors: (Golder and Macy 2011)
Three or more authors: (Goldman et al. 2006)

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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