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

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

May, M., 2013. Regenerative medicine: Rebuilding the backbone. Nature 503, S7-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Perepichka, D.F., Rosei, F., 2009. Chemistry. Extending polymer conjugation into the second dimension. Science 323, 216–217.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu, Z., Zhang, X.-S., Zhang, S., 2014. Breast tumor subgroups reveal diverse clinical prognostic power. Sci. Rep. 4, 4002.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, J., Wu, Z., Cheng, F., Li, W., Liu, G., Tang, Y., 2014. Computational prediction of microRNA networks incorporating environmental toxicity and disease etiology. Sci. Rep. 4, 5576.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quinn, J.F., 2013. Dementia. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford.

An edited book

Cebollero, M., 2015. Pro T-SQL Programmer’s Guide, 4th Edition. ed. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Bouchard, F., 2013. How Ecosystem Evolution Strengthens the Case for Functional Pluralism, in: Huneman, P. (Ed.), Functions: Selection and Mechanisms. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 83–95.

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 Insights.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2016. What You See Is Not Always What You Get: How Virtual Reality Can Manipulate Our Minds [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/what-you-see-is-not-always-what-you-get-how-virtual-reality-can-manipulate-our-minds/ (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, 2017. Aviation Research and Development: FAA Could Improve How It Develops Its Portfolio and Reports Its Activities (No. GAO-17-372). 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

Salie, A., 2008. Servant-minded leadership and work satisfaction in Islamic organizations: A correlational mixed study (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Eligon, J., 2017. Family of Man Shot by Officer Settles Suit. New York Times A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (May, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (May, 2013; Perepichka and Rosei, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Perepichka and Rosei, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Business Venturing Insights
Abbreviation	J. Bus. Ventur. Insights
ISSN (print)	2352-6734
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