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

Kawaler, S. D. (2003). Astronomy. Taking the pulse of a massive star. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5627), 1885–1886.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lewcock, J. W., & Reed, R. R. (2003). Neuroscience. ORs rule the roost in the olfactory system. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5653), 2078–2079.

A journal article with 3 authors

Falck, J., Coates, J., & Jackson, S. P. (2005). Conserved modes of recruitment of ATM, ATR and DNA-PKcs to sites of DNA damage. Nature, 434(7033), 605–611.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Dore, J. E., Lukas, R., Sadler, D. W., & Karl, D. M. (2003). Climate-driven changes to the atmospheric CO2 sink in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean. Nature, 424(6950), 754–757.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Söchting, I. (2014). Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gontero, P., Kirby, R. S., & Carson, C. C., III (Eds.). (2013). Problem Based Urology. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Monroy-Ata, A., Peña-Becerril, J. C., & García-Díaz, M. (2016). Mycorrhizal Symbiosis Organization of Dominant Tree Prosopis laevigata (Mesquite) in a Xeric Shrub of Central Mexico. In M. C. Pagano (Ed.), Recent Advances on Mycorrhizal Fungi (pp. 35–45). 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, E. (2014, September 19). Chemistry Life Hacks. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/chemistry-life-hacks-volume-3/

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. (1996). Intermodal Freight Transportation: Projects and Planning Issues (NSIAD-96-159). 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

Hilmey, D. G. (2006). Synthesis and Study of Heteroatomic Spirocyclic Scaffolds [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

Lehman, S. (2017, March 29). A Times Reporter Gets a Surprise Trip to Prison. New York Times, A2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kawaler, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Kawaler, 2003; Lewcock & Reed, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Lewcock & Reed, 2003)
Three authors: (Falck et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Dore et al., 2003)

About the journal

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