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

Zahn, R., 2009. Climate change: Beyond the CO(2) connection. Nature 460, 335–336.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hwang, K.C., Sagadevan, A., 2014. One-pot room-temperature conversion of cyclohexane to adipic acid by ozone and UV light. Science 346, 1495–1498.

A journal article with 3 authors

Truckses, D.M., Garrenton, L.S., Thorner, J., 2004. Jekyll and Hyde in the microbial world. Science 306, 1509–1511.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhao, W.-W., Liu, Z., Shan, S., Zhang, W.-W., Wang, J., Ma, Z.-Y., Xu, J.-J., Chen, H.-Y., 2014. Bismuthoxyiodide nanoflakes/titania nanotubes arrayed p-n heterojunction and its application for photoelectrochemical bioanalysis. Sci. Rep. 4, 4426.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rachev, S.T., Kim, Y.S., Bianchi, M.L., Fabozzi, F.J., 2011. Financial Models with Lévy Processes and Volatility Clustering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Pekař, M., 2014. The Thermodynamics of Linear Fluids and Fluid Mixtures. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Namata, G.M., Sharara, H., Getoor, L., 2010. A Survey of Link Mining Tasks for Analyzing Noisy and Incomplete Networks, in: Yu, P.S., Han, J., Faloutsos, C. (Eds.), Link Mining: Models, Algorithms, and Applications. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 107–133.

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, E., 2015. Droplet Levitates On Electric Blue Plasma [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, 1982. Improper Use of Federal Student Aid Funds for Lobbying Activities (No. HRD-82-107). 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

Becknell, J.M., 2013. Listening to narratives of war (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Saslow, L., 2006. 13 Hospitals to Remove Trans Fats From Meals. New York Times 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zahn, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Hwang and Sagadevan, 2014; Zahn, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Hwang and Sagadevan, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Zhao 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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