How to format your references using the International Journal of the Economics of Business citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of the Economics of Business. 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

Conner, Jeffrey K. 2002. “Genetic Mechanisms of Floral Trait Correlations in a Natural Population.” Nature 420 (6914): 407–410.

A journal article with 2 authors

Knohl, Alexander, and Edzo Veldkamp. 2011. “Global Change: Indirect Feedbacks to Rising CO2.” Nature 475 (7355): 177–178.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pichersky, Eran, Joseph P. Noel, and Natalia Dudareva. 2006. “Biosynthesis of Plant Volatiles: Nature’s Diversity and Ingenuity.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 311 (5762): 808–811.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Langevin, Y., F. Poulet, J-P Bibring, B. Schmitt, S. Douté, and B. Gondet. 2005. “Summer Evolution of the North Polar Cap of Mars as Observed by OMEGA/Mars Express.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 307 (5715): 1581–1584.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hessel, Volker, Holger Löwe, Andreas Müller, and Gunther Kolb. 2005. Chemical Micro Process Engineering. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Arnon, Arie, Jimmy Weinblatt, and Warren Young, eds. 2011. Perspectives on Keynesian Economics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Crescenzi, Riccardo, and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose. 2011. “Knowledge Flows and Their Spatial Extent.” In Innovation and Regional Growth in the European Union, edited by Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, 75–82. Advances in Spatial Science. 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 International Journal of the Economics of Business.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “This Video Induces Natural Hallucinations.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/video-causes-natural-hallucinations/.

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. 2008. National Airspace System: DOT and FAA Actions Will Likely Have a Limited Effect on Reducing Delays during Summer 2008 Travel Season. GAO-08-934T. 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

Ray-Dulany, Walter Randolph. 2010. “Base Change for the Iwahori-Hecke Algebra of GL2.” Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Feeney, Kelly. 2011. “Irish Soda Bread, Family Style.” New York Times, March 6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Conner 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Conner 2002; Knohl and Veldkamp 2011).

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

Two authors: (Knohl and Veldkamp 2011)
Three authors: (Pichersky, Noel, and Dudareva 2006)
4 or more authors: (Langevin et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of the Economics of Business
ISSN (print)	1357-1516
ISSN (online)	1466-1829
Scope	Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) Economics and Econometrics