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

Hardin LS (2008) Meetings that changed the world: Bellagio 1969: The green revolution. Nature 455:470–471

A journal article with 2 authors

Blázquez MA, Weigel D (2000) Integration of floral inductive signals in Arabidopsis. Nature 404:889–892

A journal article with 3 authors

Tenenbaum JB, de Silva V, Langford JC (2000) A global geometric framework for nonlinear dimensionality reduction. Science 290:2319–2323

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Cheng Q, Wu K, Shi Y, et al (2013) Directionally hiding objects and creating illusions at visible wavelengths by holography. Sci Rep 3:1974

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Petrucelli JR, Peters JR (2016) Preventing Fraud and Mismanagement in Government. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Priami C, Back R-J, Petre I (eds) (2009) Transactions on Computational Systems Biology XI. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Höfler H, Langer R, Ott K, Keller G (2007) Prediction of Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Carcinomas of the Upper Gastrointestinal Tract. In: Dietel M (ed) Targeted Therapies in Cancer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 33–36

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

Evans K (2017) Tiny Robot Drones Developed To Help Declining Bees Pollinate Plants. In: IFLScience. 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 (2016) Commercial Space Launch Insurance: Views Differ on Need for Change to Insurance Approach but Clarification Is Needed. 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

Harris AE (2017) A quantitative study of the impact of CFO and auditor turnover on internal control weaknesses. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Photographs by GEORGE ETHEREDGE for THE NEW YORK TIMES (2017) The Color Red. New York Times RE12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hardin 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Blázquez and Weigel 2000; Hardin 2008).

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

Two authors: (Blázquez and Weigel 2000)
Three or more authors: (Cheng et al. 2013)

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