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

Benner, S. A. 2011. “Comment on ‘A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus.’” Science (New York, N.Y.) 332 (6034): 1149; author reply 1149.

A journal article with 2 authors

Salazar-Ciudad, I., and Jernvall, J. 2010. “A Computational Model of Teeth and the Developmental Origins of Morphological Variation.” Nature 464 (7288): 583–586.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sherwood, S. C., Bony, S., and Dufresne, J.-L. 2014. “Spread in Model Climate Sensitivity Traced to Atmospheric Convective Mixing.” Nature 505 (7481): 37–42.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lee, I., Date, S. V., Adai, A. T., and Marcotte, E. M. 2004. “A Probabilistic Functional Network of Yeast Genes.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 306 (5701): 1555–1558.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Belliotti, R. A. 2011. Dante’s Deadly Sins. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Rezakhanlou, F. 2008. Entropy Methods for the Boltzmann Equation: Lectures from a Special Semester at the Centre Émile Borel, Institut H. Poincaré, Paris, 2001. Edited by Cédric Villani, François Golse, and Stefano Olla. Vol. 1916. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kim, I. T., Park, C., Hwang, S. O., and Park, C.-M. 2011. “Implementation of Bilinear Pairings over Elliptic Curves with Embedding Degree 24.” In Multimedia, Computer Graphics and Broadcasting: International Conference, MulGraB 2011, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, FGIT 2011, in Conjunction with GDC 2011, Jeju Island, Korea, December 8-10, 2011. Proceedings, Part I, edited by Tai-Hoon Kim, Hojjat Adeli, William I. Grosky, Niki Pissinou, Timothy K. Shih, Edward J. Rothwell, Byeong-Ho Kang, and Seung-Jung Shin, 37–43. Communications in Computer and Information Science. 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 Logistics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. “Meet The Super Salamander, Who Very Nearly Ate Your Ancestors For Breakfast.” IFLScience. IFLScience. March 24. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/meet-super-salamander-who-very-nearly-ate-your-ancestors-breakfast/.

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. 2002. NASA Contract Payments. GAO-02-642R. 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

John, S. P. 2017. “Drying without Dying: The Resurrection Fern Pleopeltis Polypodioides.” Doctoral dissertation, Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Vecsey, G. 2011. “Open Skies, Bouncing Balls and Tough Critiques.” New York Times, September 9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Benner 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Benner 2011; Salazar-Ciudad and Jernvall 2010).

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

Two authors: (Salazar-Ciudad and Jernvall 2010)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al. 2004)

About the journal

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