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

Dance, A., 2015. Neuroscience: Connectomes make the map. Nature 526, 147–149.

A journal article with 2 authors

Johnson, E.J., Goldstein, D., 2003. Medicine. Do defaults save lives? Science 302, 1338–1339.

A journal article with 3 authors

Norell, M.A., Makovicky, P.J., Currie, P.J., 2001. Palaeontology. The beaks of ostrich dinosaurs. Nature 412, 873–874.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stein, A., Weber, G., Wahl, M.C., Jahn, R., 2009. Helical extension of the neuronal SNARE complex into the membrane. Nature 460, 525–528.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Speight, J.G., 2017. Rules of Thumb for Petroleum Engineers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Caveen, A., 2015. The Controversy over Marine Protected Areas: Science meets Policy, SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Molenkamp, F., 2006. Effective Stress Formulation of Unsaturated Soil Mechanics, in: Wu, W., Yu, H.-S. (Eds.), Modern Trends in Geomechanics, Springer Proceedings in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 61–75.

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

Fang, J., 2014. Scientists Reset Stem Cells to Study Us at Our Fully Pristine State [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-reset-stem-cells-study-us-our-fully-pristine-state/ (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, 1970. Review of Certain Activities of the Florida School Desegregating Consulting Center (No. B-164031(1)). 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

San, K.A., 2017. Synthesis of Alkanethiolate-Capped Metal Nanoparticles Using Alkyl Thiosulfate Ligand Precursors for Selective Catalytic Reactions (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Erlanger, S., Kanter, J., 2017. Brexit Talks Stall as E.U. Presses Britain to Pay Up. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dance, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Dance, 2015; Johnson and Goldstein, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Johnson and Goldstein, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Stein et al., 2009)

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