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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Business Logistics (JBL). 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

Knapp, S. 2013. “Evolution. What, Where, and When?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 341 (6151): 1182–1184.

A journal article with 2 authors

Levens, D., and Gupta, A. 2010. “Molecular Biology. Reliable Noise.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 327 (5969): 1088–1089.

A journal article with 3 authors

Runnels, L. W., Yue, L., and Clapham, D. E. 2001. “TRP-PLIK, a Bifunctional Protein with Kinase and Ion Channel Activities.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 291 (5506): 1043–1047.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Jaeger, J.-J., Beard, K. C., Chaimanee, Y., Salem, M., Benammi, M., Hlal, O., Coster, P., et al. 2010. “Late Middle Eocene Epoch of Libya Yields Earliest Known Radiation of African Anthropoids.” Nature 467 (7319): 1095–1098.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Free, M. L. 2015. CBT and Christianity. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Böllinghaus, T., and Herold, H., eds. 2005. Hot Cracking Phenomena in Welds. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Yusnita, M. A., Paulraj, M. P., Yaacob, S., Shahriman, A. B., Yusuf, R., and Fadzilah, M. N. 2016. “Robustness Analysis of Feature Extractors for Ethnic Identification of Malaysian English Accents Database.” In Regional Conference on Science, Technology and Social Sciences (RCSTSS 2014): Science and Technology, edited by Nor Azizah Yacob, Mesliza Mohamed, and Megat Ahmad Kamal Megat Hanafiah, 47–55. Singapore: 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 Logistics.

Blog post

Andrew, D. 2016. “Fair Play? How ‘Smart Drugs’ Are Making Workplaces More Competitive.” IFLScience. IFLScience. July 1. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/fair-play-how-smart-drugs-are-making-workplaces-more-competitive/.

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. 1976. Contract Award by the Federal Power Commission for Developing and Installing a Regulatory Information System. RED-76-59. 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

Boyer, T. H. 2008. “Removal of Natural Organic Matter by Anion Exchange: Multiscale Experimentation and Mathematical Modeling.” Doctoral dissertation, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina.

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

Taylor, K. 2015. “Named Next President of N.Y.U., Oxford’s Leader Inherits Challenges.” New York Times, March 19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Knapp 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Knapp 2013; Levens and Gupta 2010).

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

Two authors: (Levens and Gupta 2010)
Three or more authors: (Jaeger et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Business Logistics
ISSN (online)	2158-1592
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