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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Business Research. 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	Download the output style file
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

Faber, K. T. (2013). Materials science. Small volumes create super(elastic) effects. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6153), 1464–1465.

A journal article with 2 authors

He, S., & MacLeod, D. I. (2001). Orientation-selective adaptation and tilt after-effect from invisible patterns. Nature, 411(6836), 473–476.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hosseini, P., Wright, C. D., & Bhaskaran, H. (2014). An optoelectronic framework enabled by low-dimensional phase-change films. Nature, 511(7508), 206–211.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Gerber, L. R., Runge, M. C., Maloney, R. F., Iacona, G. D., Drew, C. A., Avery-Gomm, S., Brazill-Boast, J., Crouse, D., Epanchin-Niell, R. S., Hall, S. B., Maguire, L. A., Male, T., Morgan, D., Newman, J., Possingham, H. P., Rumpff, L., Weiss, K. C. B., Wilson, R. S., & Zablan, M. A. (2018). Endangered species recovery: A resource allocation problem. Science (New York, N.Y.), 362(6412), 284–286.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sato, T., Kammen, D. M., Duan, B., Macuha, M., Zhou, Z., Wu, J., Tariq, M., & Asfaw, S. A. (2015). Smart Grid Standards. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Li, D., & Chen, Y. (Eds.). (2012). Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture V: 5th IFIP TC 5/SIG 5.1 Conference, CCTA 2011, Beijing, China, October 29-31, 2011, Proceedings, Part II (Vol. 369). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Mei, Y., & Goenezen, S. (2015). Spatially Weighted Objective Function to Solve the Inverse Elasticity Problem for the Elastic Modulus. In B. Doyle, K. Miller, A. Wittek, & P. M. F. Nielsen (Eds.), Computational Biomechanics for Medicine: New Approaches and New Applications (pp. 47–58). 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 Research.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, November 16). Biological Vs Chronological Age: How Old Are You Really? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/biological-vs-chronological-age-how-old-are-you-really/

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). Comments From The Copyright Office On GAO-10-428R (GAO-10-707SP), an E-supplement to GAO-10-428R (GAO-10-707SP). 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

Joppy, D. A. (2013). Principal Socialization in One Virginia School District: A Phenomenological Investigation [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Cooper, M., & Southall, A. (2017, June 4). A Subway Rescue by a Ballet Dancer. New York Times, A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Faber, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Faber, 2013; He & MacLeod, 2001).

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

Two authors: (He & MacLeod, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Gerber et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Business Research
Abbreviation	J. Bus. Res.
ISSN (print)	0148-2963
Scope	Marketing