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

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

Haddad NM (2015) ECOLOGY. Corridors for people, corridors for nature. Science 350:1166–1167

A journal article with 2 authors

Gray RD, Jordan FM (2000) Language trees support the express-train sequence of Austronesian expansion. Nature 405:1052–1055

A journal article with 3 authors

Meissner M, Schlüter D, Soldati D (2002) Role of Toxoplasma gondii myosin A in powering parasite gliding and host cell invasion. Science 298:837–840

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Dolmetsch RE, Pajvani U, Fife K, et al (2001) Signaling to the nucleus by an L-type calcium channel-calmodulin complex through the MAP kinase pathway. Science 294:333–339

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jamison DC (2005) Perl Programming for Biologists. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Frauendiener J, Giulini DJW, Perlick V (eds) (2006) Analytical and Numerical Approaches to Mathematical Relativity. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Greene AK (2015) Myths Associated with Lymphedema. In: Greene AK, Slavin SA, Brorson H (eds) Lymphedema: Presentation, Diagnosis, and Treatment. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 45–50

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 Economics.

Blog post

Andrews R (2016) Homo Naledi Might Be A Million Years Younger Than We Thought. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/homo-naledi-might-be-a-million-years-younger-than-we-thought/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1977) Need for a Government-Wide Budget Classification Structure for Federal Research and Development Information. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Branch J (2017) A Case Study of Perceptions and Experiences among African-American Males Regarding College Dropout Rates in a Community College. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral 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

Greenhouse L (2007) Justices to Hear Exxon’s Challenge to Punitive Damages. New York Times C5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Haddad 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Gray and Jordan 2000; Haddad 2015).

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

Two authors: (Gray and Jordan 2000)
Three or more authors: (Dolmetsch et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Business Economics
Abbreviation	J. Bus. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0044-2372
ISSN (online)	1861-8928
Scope	General Medicine