How to format your references using the Journal of International Business Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS). 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

Blackstock, J. 2012. Researchers can’t regulate climate engineering alone. Nature, 486(7402): 159.

A journal article with 2 authors

Affolter, M., & Basler, K. 2011. Cell biology. Cytonemes show their colors. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6027): 312–313.

A journal article with 3 authors

Doebeli, M., Hauert, C., & Killingback, T. 2004. The evolutionary origin of cooperators and defectors. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5697): 859–862.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wardle, D. A., Yeates, G. W., Barker, G. M., Bellingham, P. J., Bonner, K. I., & Williamson, W. M. 2003. Island biology and ecosystem functioning in epiphytic soil communities. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5640): 1717–1720.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

MacRoberts. 2014. MacRoberts on Scottish Construction Contracts. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Rieves, R. A. 2012. Investor Relations for the Emerging Company. (J. Lefebvre, Ed.) (Second Edition.). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US.

A chapter in an edited book

Jónsson, Á., & Sigurgeirsson, H. 2016. Day Zero. In H. Sigurgeirsson (Ed.), The Icelandic Financial Crisis: A Study into the World´s Smallest Currency Area and its Recovery from Total Banking Collapse: 103–138. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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 International Business Studies.

Blog post

Taub, B. 2016. Caffeine May Protect Older Women From Dementia. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/caffeine-may-protect-older-women-from-dementia/. Accessed 30 October 2018, . 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. 1972. Drug Abuse Control Program Activities in the Philippines. No. B-164031(2). Washington, DC: 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

Fay, C. 2017. Aposematic Variation and the Evolution of Warning Coloration in Mammals. Doctoral dissertation. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Crow, K. 2001. Untouched, But Touched. New York Times, September 30.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blackstock, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Affolter & Basler, 2011; Blackstock, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Affolter & Basler, 2011)
Three authors: (Doebeli, Hauert, & Killingback, 2004)
7 or more authors: (Wardle, Yeates, Barker, Bellingham, Bonner, & Williamson, 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of International Business Studies
Abbreviation	J. Int. Bus. Stud.
ISSN (print)	0047-2506
ISSN (online)	1478-6990
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting Business and International Management Management of Technology and Innovation Strategy and Management Economics and Econometrics