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

Rice, M. (2006). Physics. Superconductivity with a twist. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5803), 1248–1249.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schmitz, L., & Motani, R. (2011). Nocturnality in dinosaurs inferred from scleral ring and orbit morphology. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6030), 705–708.

A journal article with 3 authors

Park, H., Li, Y., & Tsien, R. W. (2012). Influence of synaptic vesicle position on release probability and exocytotic fusion mode. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6074), 1362–1366.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Schwechheimer, C., Serino, G., Callis, J., Crosby, W. L., Lyapina, S., Deshaies, R. J., Gray, W. M., Estelle, M., & Deng, X. W. (2001). Interactions of the COP9 signalosome with the E3 ubiquitin ligase SCFTIRI in mediating auxin response. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5520), 1379–1382.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hollins, C. (2012). Basic Guide to Anatomy and Physiology for Dental Care Professionals. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.,.

An edited book

Markopoulos, P., Ruyter, B. de, IJsselsteijn, W., & Rowland, D. (Eds.). (2008). Fun and Games: Second International Conference, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, October 20-21, 2008. Proceedings (Vol. 5294). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Liqat, U., Kerrison, S., Serrano, A., Georgiou, K., Lopez-Garcia, P., Grech, N., Hermenegildo, M. V., & Eder, K. (2014). Energy Consumption Analysis of Programs Based on XMOS ISA-Level Models. In G. Gupta & R. Peña (Eds.), Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation: 23rd International Symposium, LOPSTR 2013, Madrid, Spain, September 18-19, 2013, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 72–90). 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 International Business Review.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, September 2). Ceres Asteroid May Have An ‘Ice Volcano’ And Other Signs Of Water, NASA Mission Reveals. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/ceres-asteroid-may-have-an-ice-volcano-and-other-signs-of-water-nasa-mission-reveals/

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. (1984). Observations on the FBI’s Interstate Identification Index (GGD-85-4). 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

Brown, H. P. (2003). The Pragmatics of Direct Address in the Iliad: A Study in Linguistic Politeness [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

Murphy, M. J. O. (2014, October 10). Weary of War and Ready to Laugh. New York Times, C32.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rice, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Rice, 2006; Schmitz & Motani, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Schmitz & Motani, 2011)
Three authors: (Park et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Schwechheimer et al., 2001)

About the journal

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