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

Tilgner, E. (2002). Mantophasmatodea: a new insect order? Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5582), 731; discussion 731.

A journal article with 2 authors

Laflamme, M. A., & Murry, C. E. (2011). Heart regeneration. Nature, 473(7347), 326–335.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kirichok, Y., Navarro, B., & Clapham, D. E. (2006). Whole-cell patch-clamp measurements of spermatozoa reveal an alkaline-activated Ca2+ channel. Nature, 439(7077), 737–740.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Galy, V., Beyssac, O., France-Lanord, C., & Eglinton, T. (2008). Recycling of graphite during Himalayan erosion: a geological stabilization of carbon in the crust. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5903), 943–945.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kizer, G. (2013). Digital Microwave Communication. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chang, A. C., & Brawer Silva, D. (Eds.). (2014). Salinity and Drainage in San Joaquin Valley, California: Science, Technology, and Policy (Vol. 5). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Kawabe, J. (2011). Riesz Type Integral Representations for Comonotonically Additive Functionals. In S. Li, X. Wang, Y. Okazaki, J. Kawabe, T. Murofushi, & L. Guan (Eds.), Nonlinear Mathematics for Uncertainty and its Applications (pp. 35–42). 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

Andrews, R. (2016, October 21). Giving Seaweed To Cattle Could Bring A Stop To Belch-Based Climate Change. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/giving-seaweed-cattle-stop-belchbased-climate-change/

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. (2009). Transportation Programs: Challenges Facing the Department of Transportation and Congress (GAO-09-435T). 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

Talice, K. W. (2017). An Assessment of Veterans Affairs Healthcare Leadership Competencies [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella 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

Kelly, C. (2012, August 26). Ann Richards Film Recalls A Woman and Her Era. New York Times, A23B.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tilgner, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Laflamme & Murry, 2011; Tilgner, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Laflamme & Murry, 2011)
Three authors: (Kirichok et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Galy et al., 2008)

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

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