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

Schnitzer, M. J. 2002. Biological computation: amazing algorithms. Nature, 416(6882): 683.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reinhard, C. T., & Planavsky, N. J. 2011. Mineralogical constraints on Precambrian pCO2. Nature, 474(7349): E1-2; discussion E4-5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, Y. A., Feng, A.-C., & Ganz, P. A. 2014. Health services utilisation in breast cancer survivors in Taiwan. Scientific reports, 4: 7466.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Eggan, K., Baldwin, K., Tackett, M., Osborne, J., Gogos, J., Chess, A., et al. 2004. Mice cloned from olfactory sensory neurons. Nature, 428(6978): 44–49.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghiani, G., Laporte, G., & Musmanno, R. 2013. Introduction to Logistics Systems Management. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Rodgers, M., & Sweeney, S. E. (Eds.). 2016. Nabokov and the Question of Morality: Aesthetics, Metaphysics, and the Ethics of Fiction. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US.

A chapter in an edited book

Radüntz, T. 2016. A New Method for Mental Workload Registration. In D. Harris (Ed.), Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics: 13th International Conference, EPCE 2016, Held as Part of HCI International 2016, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 17-22, 2016, Proceedings: 29–37. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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. 2015. Imposter Nanosponges Fight Antibiotic-Resistant Infection. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/nanosponges-fights-antibiotic-resistant-infection/. 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. 1974. Problems of the Upward Bound Program in Preparing Disadvantaged Students for a Postsecondary Education. No. B-164031(1). 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

Rhoads, E. P. 2006. Knowledge management practices in U.S. federal agencies: The catalyst for E-Government transformation. 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

Kelly, K. 2017. Another Goldman Executive Joins Administration. New York Times, March 15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schnitzer, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Reinhard & Planavsky, 2011; Schnitzer, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Reinhard & Planavsky, 2011)
Three authors: (Wang, Feng, & Ganz, 2014)
7 or more authors: (Eggan et al., 2004)

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

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