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

Greaves, J. S. (2005). Disks around stars and the growth of planetary systems. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5706), 68–71.

A journal article with 2 authors

Suzuki, Y., & Nijhout, H. F. (2006). Evolution of a polyphenism by genetic accommodation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5761), 650–652.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kikushima, K., Kita, S., & Higuchi, H. (2013). A non-invasive imaging for the in vivo tracking of high-speed vesicle transport in mouse neutrophils. Scientific Reports, 3, 1913.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Behrens, T. E. J., Hunt, L. T., Woolrich, M. W., & Rushworth, M. F. S. (2008). Associative learning of social value. Nature, 456(7219), 245–249.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hey, E. (2011). Neonatal Formulary 6. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Gao, M. C., Yeh, J.-W., Liaw, P. K., & Zhang, Y. (Eds.). (2016). High-Entropy Alloys: Fundamentals and Applications. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Sakhravi, R., Omran, M. T., & Oommen, B. J. (2014). On the Existence and Heuristic Computation of the Solution for the Commons Game. In N. T. Nguyen (Ed.), Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XIV (pp. 71–99). 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

Hamilton, K. (2016, October 11). Can Money Buy You Happiness? It’s Complicated. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1969). Use of Fixed-Price Contracts for the Procurement of Studies and Investigations of Research and Development Matters (092660). 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

Martin, J. C. (2008). Tbx18 and the epicardium in cardiac development and regenerative medicine [Doctoral dissertation]. University of California San Diego.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, May 4). Ta’ang. New York Times, C9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Greaves, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Greaves, 2005; Suzuki & Nijhout, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Suzuki & Nijhout, 2006)
Three authors: (Kikushima et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Behrens et al., 2008)

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