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

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

Mignan, A. (2014). The debate on the prognostic value of earthquake foreshocks: a meta-analysis. Scientific reports, 4, 4099.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rohwer, F., & Thurber, R. V. (2009). Viruses manipulate the marine environment. Nature, 459(7244), 207–212.

A journal article with 3 authors

Parkin, S. S. P., Hayashi, M., & Thomas, L. (2008). Magnetic domain-wall racetrack memory. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5873), 190–194.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Mainland, J. D., Bremner, E. A., Young, N., Johnson, B. N., Khan, R. M., Bensafi, M., & Sobel, N. (2002). Olfactory plasticity: one nostril knows what the other learns. Nature, 419(6909), 802.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McGee, G. (2012). Bioethics for beginners. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Dong, M., Lin, J., & Tang, X. (Eds.). (2016). Chinese Lexical Semantics: 17th Workshop, CLSW 2016, Singapore, Singapore, May 20–22, 2016, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 10085). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Augot, D., Betti, E., & Orsini, E. (2009). An Introduction to Linear and Cyclic Codes. In M. Sala, S. Sakata, T. Mora, C. Traverso, & L. Perret (Eds.), Gröbner Bases, Coding, and Cryptography (pp. 47–68). 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 Ethics.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2016, July 6). Plate Tectonics: New Findings Fill Out The 50-Year-Old Theory That Explains Earth’s Landmasses. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/plate-tectonics-new-findings-fill-out-the-fifty-year-old-theory-that-explains-earths-landmasses/. 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. (1972). Selected Contracts, Purchase Orders, and Grants Awarded to Indian Tribes and Organizations During Fiscal Year 1971 (No. B-114868). 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

Moore, J. (2012). Recall after conscious sedation for gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures and its effect on patient satisfaction (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

Hubbard, B., & Sanger, D. E. (2016, December 21). 3 Nations Meet for Syria Talks, Excluding U.S. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mignan 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Mignan 2014; Rohwer and Thurber 2009).

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

Two authors: (Rohwer and Thurber 2009)
Three or more authors: (Mainland et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Business Ethics
Abbreviation	J. Bus. Ethics
ISSN (print)	0167-4544
ISSN (online)	1573-0697
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) General Business, Management and Accounting Business and International Management Economics and Econometrics Law