How to format your references using the Journal of Family Business Strategy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Family Business Strategy. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Fraser, B. (2014). The first South Americans: Extreme living. Nature, 514(7520), 24–26.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bull, J. J., & Parrish, C. R. (2002). Microbiology. A binding contract for anthrax. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5579), 201–202.

A journal article with 3 authors

Giustino, F., Cohen, M. L., & Louie, S. G. (2008). Small phonon contribution to the photoemission kink in the copper oxide superconductors. Nature, 452(7190), 975–978.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Su, Z., Li, L., Peng, H., Kurths, J., Xiao, J., & Yang, Y. (2014). Robustness of interrelated traffic networks to cascading failures. Scientific Reports, 4, 5413.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shanmugam, R., & Chattamvelli, R. (2015). Statistics for Scientists and Engineers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Albeverio, S. (2008). SPDE in Hydrodynamic: Recent Progress and Prospects: Lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Cetraro, Italy August 29–September 3, 2005 (F. Flandoli, Y. G. Sinai, G. D. Prato, & M. Rückner, Eds.; Vol. 1942). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bauer, J. W., Lang, R., Jakab, M., & Kofler, B. (2010). Galanin Family of Peptides in Skin Function. In T. Hökfelt (Ed.), Galanin (pp. 51–59). 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 Family Business Strategy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 17). ‘Teenage’ Jupiter May Hold The Secret Of How Planets Form. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/teenage-jupiter-may-hold-secret-how-planets-form/

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. (1990). Space Operations: NASA Is Not Properly Safeguarding Valuable Data From Past Missions (IMTEC-90-1). 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

Schaeffler, K. P. (2015). From Flag Officer to Corporate Leader: A Phenomenological Study of the Influence of Career Transition on Executive Leadership and Professional Identity [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Bray, C. (2016, September 28). London Bank’s U.S. Bargain Is Imperiled by New Claims. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fraser, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bull & Parrish, 2002; Fraser, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Bull & Parrish, 2002)
Three authors: (Giustino et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Su et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Family Business Strategy
Abbreviation	J. Fam. Bus. Strat.
ISSN (print)	1877-8585
Scope	Strategy and Management Economics and Econometrics