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

Christensen, P.R., 2003. Formation of recent martian gullies through melting of extensive water-rich snow deposits. Nature 422, 45–48.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stern, A., Lindner, N.H., 2013. Topological quantum computation--from basic concepts to first experiments. Science 339, 1179–1184.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu, D.-A., Kanai, R., Shimojo, S., 2004. Vision: steady-state misbinding of colour and motion. Nature 429, 262.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

McKeever, J., Boca, A., Boozer, A.D., Buck, J.R., Kimble, H.J., 2003. Experimental realization of a one-atom laser in the regime of strong coupling. Nature 425, 268–271.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jones, G.F., 2010. Gravity-Driven Water Flow in Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Daniels, J.A., 2011. Preventing Lethal School Violence, Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Gigengack, F., Jiang, X., Dawood, M., Schäfers, K.P., 2015. Further Developments in PET Motion Correction, in: Jiang, X., Dawood, M., Schäfers, K.P. (Eds.), Motion Correction in Thoracic Positron Emission Tomography, SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 75–80.

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

O`Callaghan, J., 2016. Watch As The Sun Devours A Comet [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-as-the-sun-devours-a-comet/ (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. NASA Report May Overstate the Economic Benefits of Research and Development Spending (No. PAD-78-18). 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

Ritter, D., 2008. The EU and conflict: Critically assessing the success of the ESDP and its impact in conflict areas (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Chira, S., Alcindor, Y., 2017. Defiant Yet Jubilant Voices Flood U.S. Cities. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Christensen, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Christensen, 2003; Stern and Lindner, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Stern and Lindner, 2013)
Three or more authors: (McKeever et al., 2003)

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