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

Crampton J (2011) Paleontology. What drives biodiversity changes? Science 334:1073–1074

A journal article with 2 authors

Dasgupta PS, Ehrlich PR (2013) Pervasive externalities at the population, consumption, and environment nexus. Science 340:324–328

A journal article with 3 authors

Davison PA, Hunter CN, Horton P (2002) Overexpression of beta-carotene hydroxylase enhances stress tolerance in Arabidopsis. Nature 418:203–206

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mann NH, Cook A, Millard A, et al (2003) Marine ecosystems: bacterial photosynthesis genes in a virus. Nature 424:741

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Islam MR, Chhetri AB, Khan MM (2010) The Greening of Petroleum Operations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Hamdan MO, Hejase HAN, Noura HM, Fardoun AA (eds) (2014) ICREGA’14 - Renewable Energy: Generation and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Albert E, Genaim S, Gordillo P (2015) May-Happen-in-Parallel Analysis for Asynchronous Programs with Inter-Procedural Synchronization. In: Blazy S, Jensen T (eds) Static Analysis: 22nd International Symposium, SAS 2015, Saint-Malo, France, September 9-11, 2015, Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 72–89

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

Andrew E (2015) Cannibal Supernova Eats Companion Star. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/supernova-engulfs-companion-star/. 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 (1995) Amtrak: Deteriorated Financial and Operating Conditions. 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

Mowery K (2015) Beneath the Attack Surface. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

GEORGE GENE GUSTINES; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF (2010) A Cartoon Depiction of Real Iranian Life. New York Times C2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Crampton 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Crampton 2011; Dasgupta and Ehrlich 2013).

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

Two authors: (Dasgupta and Ehrlich 2013)
Three or more authors: (Mann et al. 2003)

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