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

Offringa, R. 2006. Cancer. Cancer immunotherapy is more than a numbers game. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5796): 68–69.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ward, L. D., & Kellis, M. 2013. Response to comment on “Evidence of abundant purifying selection in humans for recently acquired regulatory functions.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6133): 682.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hassan, M. A., Mahmoodian, R., & Hamdi, M. 2014. Modified smoothed particle hydrodynamics (MSPH) for the analysis of centrifugally assisted TiC-Fe-Al2O3 combustion synthesis. Scientific reports, 4: 3724.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Beaugrand, G., Reid, P. C., Ibañez, F., Lindley, J. A., & Edwards, M. 2002. Reorganization of North Atlantic marine copepod biodiversity and climate. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5573): 1692–1694.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Birla, R. 2014. Introduction to Tissue Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rullière, C. (Ed.). 2005. Femtosecond Laser Pulses: Principles and Experiments (Second Edition.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Pashiardis, P., Georgiou, M., & Georghiou, M. 2009. Cyprus. In J. Scheerens (Ed.), Informal Learning of Active Citizenship at School: An International Comparative Study in Seven European Countries: 51–74. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Andrew, D. 2016. Superbugs 1, The World 0. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/superbugs-1-the-world-0/. 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. 2009. Access to Arts Education: Inclusion of Additional Questions in Education’s Planned Research Would Help Explain Why Instruction Time Has Decreased for Some Students. No. GAO-09-286. 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

Thom, R. C. 2017. Digital Martyrs and Shadowless Assailants: The Projective Shadow’s Emergence in Cyberspace. Doctoral dissertation. Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Shpigel, B. 2016. Indians Channel Their Inner Cavaliers. New York Times, October 8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Offringa, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Offringa, 2006; Ward & Kellis, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Ward & Kellis, 2013)
Three authors: (Hassan, Mahmoodian, & Hamdi, 2014)
7 or more authors: (Beaugrand, Reid, Ibañez, Lindley, & Edwards, 2002)

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