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

Sánchez-Lavega, A. 2005. How long is the day on Saturn? Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5713): 1223–1224.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marcus, A., & Oransky, I. 2011. Science publishing: The paper is not sacred. Nature, 480(7378): 449–450.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grosman, C., Zhou, M., & Auerbach, A. 2000. Mapping the conformational wave of acetylcholine receptor channel gating. Nature, 403(6771): 773–776.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sakai, A., Kanno, T., Takahashi, K., Tamaki, H., Kusada, H., Yamada, Y., et al. 2014. Breaking the trade-off between thermal and electrical conductivities in the thermoelectric material of an artificially tilted multilayer. Scientific reports, 4: 6089.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ribéreau-Gayon, P., Dubourdieu, D., Donèche, B., & Lonvaud, A. 2006. Handbook of Enology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Campos, J., & Haverkort, B. R. (Eds.). 2015. Quantitative Evaluation of Systems: 12th International Conference, QEST 2015, Madrid, Spain, September 1-3, 2015, Proceedings (1st ed. 2015.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Jönsson, G., & Tsao, H. 2011. Melanoma Genetics and Genomics. In A. Bosserhoff (Ed.), Melanoma Development: Molecular Biology, Genetics and Clinical Application: 57–77. Vienna: 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 International Business Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014. Ten Things You Really Should Know About Ebola. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ten-things-you-really-should-know-about-ebola/. 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. 1981. [Department of Energy’s Authority To Establish a Facility at Morgantown, West Virginia]. No. B-202992. 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

Williams, A. P. 2012. Reentry of Substance Abusing Female Ex-Offenders from Prison to an Urban Community. Doctoral dissertation. Washington, DC: 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

Crow, K. 2003. For Homeless Families, A Tiring Trek to School. New York Times, March 2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sánchez-Lavega, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Marcus & Oransky, 2011; Sánchez-Lavega, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Marcus & Oransky, 2011)
Three authors: (Grosman, Zhou, & Auerbach, 2000)
7 or more authors: (Sakai et al., 2014)

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