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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Business Venturing. 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

Willyard, C., 2011. Imaging: Seeing is believing. Nature 480, S52-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Julius, D., Basbaum, A.I., 2001. Molecular mechanisms of nociception. Nature 413, 203–210.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin, X., Fauqué, B., Behnia, K., 2015. SOLID-STATE PHYSICS. Scalable T² resistivity in a small single-component Fermi surface. Science 349, 945–948.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, G., Ren, J.-G., Zhang, W., Sun, Y.-F., Wang, F.-Q., Li, R.-F., Zhang, J., Zhao, Y.-F., 2014. Disorganized vascular structures in sporadic venous malformations: a possible correlation with balancing effect between Tie2 and TGF-β. Sci. Rep. 4, 5457.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gladon, R.J., Graves, W.R., Kelly, J.M., 2011. Getting Published in the Life Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Silva, L.F.M. da, Sato, C. (Eds.), 2013. Design of Adhesive Joints Under Humid Conditions, Advanced Structured Materials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Giacomazzi, P., Poli, A., 2009. Cost-Performance Planning of Municipal Wireless Access Networks, in: Wang, C. (Ed.), AccessNets: Third International Conference on Access Networks, AccessNets 2008, Las Vegas, NV, USA, October 15-17, 2008. Revised Papers, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 46–61.

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 Venturing.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. SpaceX Launch Currently A Go [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1977. Space Transportation System: Past, Present, Future (No. PSAD-77-113). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Reller, T.L., 2010. Exploring differences in teacher attitudes and instructional strategies between traditional and block schedule high schools: A comparison of two small schools (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Hayes, S. by T., 2017. The Chess Set on a Table Between Two Chairs. New York Times MM19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Willyard, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Julius and Basbaum, 2001; Willyard, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Julius and Basbaum, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Business Venturing
Abbreviation	J. Bus. Venturing
ISSN (print)	0883-9026
Scope	Business and International Management Management of Technology and Innovation