How to format your references using the Journal of Business and Psychology citation style

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

Wald, C. (2015). Neuroscience: The aesthetic brain. Nature, 526(7572), S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Karp, X., & Ambros, V. (2005). Developmental biology. Encountering microRNAs in cell fate signaling. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5752), 1288–1289.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hauser, M. D., Chomsky, N., & Fitch, W. T. (2002). The faculty of language: what is it, who has it, and how did it evolve? Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5598), 1569–1579.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ning, B., Zhang, S. Y., Hou, D., Wu, J. T., Li, Z. B., & Zhao, J. Y. (2014). High-precision distribution of highly stable optical pulse trains with 8.8 × 10⁻¹⁹ instability. Scientific reports, 4, 5109.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shaw, M. T. (2011). Introduction to Polymer Rheology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Maus, T. M., Nhieu, S., & Herway, S. T. (Eds.). (2016). Essential Echocardiography: Transesophageal Echocardiography for Non-cardiac Anesthesiologists. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Costantini, A., Gutierrez, E., Cacheiro, J. L., Rodriguez, A., Gervasi, O., & Laganà, A. (2010). Porting of GROMACS Package into the Grid Environment: Testing of a New Distribution Strategy. In D. Taniar, O. Gervasi, B. Murgante, E. Pardede, & B. O. Apduhan (Eds.), Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2010: International Conference, Fukuoka, Japan, March 23-26, 2010, Proceedings, Part IV (pp. 41–52). 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 Journal of Business and Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2015, April 6). How Does The Order In Which You’re Born Affect Your Personality? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-does-order-youre-born-affect-your-personality/. 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). Process Used by Department of Education To Award Contracts for Operation of Indian Education Resource and Evaluation Centers (No. HRD-81-100). 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

Chavez, J. A. (2015). Principal stress analysis of rock fracture data from the Long Beach oil field, Los Angeles basin, California (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

Reed, S., & de la MERCED, M. J. (2017, July 13). London and New York Duke It Out For $2 Trillion Saudi Aramco Listing. New York Times, p. B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wald 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Karp and Ambros 2005; Wald 2015).

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

Two authors: (Karp and Ambros 2005)
Three or more authors: (Ning et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Business and Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Bus. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0889-3268
ISSN (online)	1573-353X
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting Business and International Management General Psychology Applied Psychology