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

Pandolfi, J. M. 2015. “Ecology: Deep and Complex Ways to Survive Bleaching.” Nature 518 (7537): 43–44.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yamagata, M., and Sanes, J. R. 2008. “Dscam and Sidekick Proteins Direct Lamina-Specific Synaptic Connections in Vertebrate Retina.” Nature 451 (7177): 465–469.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cossairt, B. M., Diawara, M.-C., and Cummins, C. C. 2009. “Facile Synthesis of AsP3.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 323 (5914): 602.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Banu, N., Chia, A., Ho, Z. Z., Garcia, A. T., Paravasivam, K., Grotenbreg, G. M., Bertoletti, A., and Gehring, A. J. 2014. “Building and Optimizing a Virus-Specific T Cell Receptor Library for Targeted Immunotherapy in Viral Infections.” Scientific Reports 4 (February): 4166.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Diab, W. W., and Frazier, H. M. 2011. Ethernet in the First Mile. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Vukotic, A. 2011. Apache Tomcat 7. Edited by James Goodwill. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Hayes, A. T. 2014. “An Approach to Holistic Development of Serious Games and Learning Simulations.” In Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Technology-Rich Environments for Learning and Collaboration: First International Conference, LCT 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014, Proceedings, Part II, edited by Panayiotis Zaphiris and Andri Ioannou, 42–49. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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 Logistics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. “The Delta Aquarid Meteor Shower Peaks TONIGHT - Here’s How To Watch.” IFLScience. IFLScience. July 28. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-delta-aquarids-meteor-shower-here/.

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. 1985. Relocation of the Western Executive Seminar Center. 126499. 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

Kargbo, A. H. 2019. “An Approach to Dynamic Resource Allocation for Electric Power Disaster Response Management.” Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Greenhouse, L. 2007. “Free-Speech Case Divides Bush and Religious Right.” New York Times, March 18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pandolfi 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Pandolfi 2015; Yamagata and Sanes 2008).

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

Two authors: (Yamagata and Sanes 2008)
Three or more authors: (Banu et al. 2014)

About the journal

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