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

Severinghaus, J.P., 2009. Atmospheric science. Monsoons and meltdowns. Science 326, 240–241.

A journal article with 2 authors

Henderson, I.R., Jacobsen, S.E., 2007. Epigenetic inheritance in plants. Nature 447, 418–424.

A journal article with 3 authors

Suzuki, T., Asami, M., Perry, A.C.F., 2014. Asymmetric parental genome engineering by Cas9 during mouse meiotic exit. Sci. Rep. 4, 7621.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Choi, Y.J., Chae, S., Kim, J.H., Barald, K.F., Park, J.Y., Lee, S.-H., 2013. Neurotoxic amyloid beta oligomeric assemblies recreated in microfluidic platform with interstitial level of slow flow. Sci. Rep. 3, 1921.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Joule, J.A., Mills, K., 2012. Heterocyclic Chemistry at a Glance. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Haberfeld, M.R., Sheehan, D. (Eds.), 2013. Match-Fixing in International Sports: Existing Processes, Law Enforcement, and Prevention Strategies. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, L., Li, M., Zhang, J., Zhu, Z., Yang, Z., 2014. A Statistical Method for Translating Chinese into Under-resourced Minority Languages, in: Shi, X., Chen, Y. (Eds.), Machine Translation: 10th China Workshop, CWMT 2014, Macau, China, November 4-6, 2014. Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 49–60.

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

Hale, T., 2016. Watching This Video Will Crash Your iPhone [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, 1987. Railroad Regulation: Shipper Experiences and Current Issues in ICC Regulation of Rail Rates (No. RCED-87-119). 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

Eaglen Bertrando, S.L., 2017. Rethinking Workplace Learning in the Digital World: A Case Study of Open Badges (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Macfarlane, I., 1905. “AN” AND “H.”; II. New York Times SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKSBR535.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Severinghaus, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Henderson and Jacobsen, 2007; Severinghaus, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Henderson and Jacobsen, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Choi et al., 2013)

About the journal

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