How to format your references using the Journal of Economics and Business citation style

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

Schlermiler, Q. (2000). German research agency “doesn’t stifle creativity”, say 1,600 scientists. Nature, 404(6781), 915.

A journal article with 2 authors

Osborn, T. J., & Briffa, K. R. (2006). The spatial extent of 20th-century warmth in the context of the past 1200 years. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5762), 841–844.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu, D., Amagai, S., & Bricken, J. (2012). Science education. Engaging teachers, scientists, and multimedia to promote learning. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6088), 1509.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Jia, J., Amanai, K., Wang, G., Tang, J., Wang, B., & Jiang, J. (2002). Shaggy/GSK3 antagonizes Hedgehog signalling by regulating Cubitus interruptus. Nature, 416(6880), 548–552.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Benchaib, A. (2015). Advanced Control of AC/DC Power Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sadjadi, F., & Javidi, B. (Eds.). (2007). Physics of Automatic Target Recognition (Vol. 3). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Tibon-Czopp, S., & Weiner, I. B. (2016). The Rorschach Inkblot Method: Research. In I. B. Weiner (Ed.), Rorschach Assessment of Adolescents: Theory, Research, and Practice (pp. 65–95). Springer.

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 Economics and Business.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, September 2). Hacking The Body: The Scientific Counter-Culture Of The DIYbio Movement. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/hacking-body-scientific-counter-culture-diybio-movement/

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. (1999). Highway Safety: Effectiveness of State .08 Blood Alcohol Laws (RCED-99-179). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Plumer, D. R. (2010). The relationship between earned value management metrics and customer satisfaction [Doctoral dissertation]. Northcentral University.

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

Norton, M. B. (2013, October 20). A House of Her Own. New York Times, BR14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schlermiler, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Osborn & Briffa, 2006; Schlermiler, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Osborn & Briffa, 2006)
Three authors: (Liu et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Jia et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Economics and Business
Abbreviation	J. Econ. Bus.
ISSN (print)	0148-6195
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting Economics and Econometrics