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

Williams, R. (2011). Biomarkers: warning signs. Nature, 475(7355), S5-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Griffin, A. S., & West, S. A. (2003). Kin discrimination and the benefit of helping in cooperatively breeding vertebrates. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5645), 634–636.

A journal article with 3 authors

Usdin, M., Guillerm, M., & Chirac, P. (2006). Neglected tests for neglected patients. Nature, 441(7091), 283–284.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wu, Y., Dong, Q., Liu, L., Han, P., & Wei, Q. (2014). The impact of tumor location and multifocality on prognosis for patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma: a meta-analysis. Scientific reports, 4, 6361.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Crane, S. (2013). Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Dao. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Richesson, R. L., & Andrews, J. E. (Eds.). (2012). Clinical Research Informatics. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Balázs, C. (2016). A New Direction: Neuro-endocrino-immunology. In J. Somlai & T. Kovács (Eds.), Neuro-Ophthalmology (pp. 15–17). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrew, E. (2014, November 10). Alzheimer’s Drug Permeates Blood-Brain Barrier. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/alzheimer-s-drug-permeates-blood-brain-barrier/. 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. (2010). Telecommunications: Information on Participation in the Rural Health Care Pilot Program (GAO-11-25SP, November 2010), an E-supplement to GAO-11-27 (No. GAO-11-25SP). 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

Rakusin, L. L. (2010). Intervening to reduce adolescent substance abuse: A grant proposal (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

Hogan, S. (2013, December 17). How I Found Love and Companionship Online. New York Times, p. ST12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Williams 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Griffin and West 2003; Williams 2011).

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

Two authors: (Griffin and West 2003)
Three or more authors: (Wu et al. 2014)

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

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