How to format your references using the International Business Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Business Review. 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	Download the output style file
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

Hatfull, G. F. (2002). Microbiology. A tail of two specifi-cities. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5562), 2031–2032.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ghosh, B., & Urban, M. W. (2009). Self-repairing oxetane-substituted chitosan polyurethane networks. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5920), 1458–1460.

A journal article with 3 authors

Peng, L., Song, Z.-G., & Jiao, S.-C. (2014). Efficacy analysis of tyrosine kinase inhibitors on rare non-small cell lung cancer patients harboring complex EGFR mutations. Scientific Reports, 4, 6104.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Brandman, O., Ferrell, J. E., Jr, Li, R., & Meyer, T. (2005). Interlinked fast and slow positive feedback loops drive reliable cell decisions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5747), 496–498.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Illian, J., Penttinen, A., Stoyan, H., & Stoyan, D. (2008). Statistical Analysis and Modelling of Spatial Point Patterns. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Boulic, R., Chrysanthou, Y., & Komura, T. (Eds.). (2010). Motion in Games: Third International Conference, MIG 2010, Utrecht, The Netherlands, November 14-16, 2010. Proceedings (Vol. 6459). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Erradi, A., Maheshwari, P., & Tosic, V. (2006). Policy-Driven Middleware for Self-adaptation of Web Services Compositions. In M. van Steen & M. Henning (Eds.), Middleware 2006: ACM/IFIP/USENIX 7th International Middleware Conference, Melbourne, Australia, November 27-December 1, 2006. Proceedings (pp. 62–80). 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 International Business Review.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, January 6). Why Some Geckos Don’t Stick. 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. (2001). Intellectual Property: State Immunity in Infringement Actions (GAO-01-811). 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

Bai, H. (2008). High Temperature Proton-Exchange and Fuel Processing Membranes for Fuel Cells and Other Applications [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

(nyt), S. K. (2002, April 26). World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Top Chechen Reported Killed. New York Times, A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hatfull, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Ghosh & Urban, 2009; Hatfull, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Ghosh & Urban, 2009)
Three authors: (Peng et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Brandman et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Business Review
Abbreviation	Int. Bus. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0969-5931
Scope	Business and International Management Marketing Finance