How to format your references using the Journal of Small Business Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Small Business Management (JSBM). 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

Sur, M. (2005). “Breathing Life into Biology,” Nature, 436(7050), 487.

A journal article with 2 authors

Iwasaki, A., and Medzhitov, R. (2010). “Regulation of Adaptive Immunity by the Innate Immune System,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5963), 291–295.

A journal article with 3 authors

Perryman, S. A. M., Clark, S. J., and West, J. S. (2014). “Splash Dispersal of Phyllosticta Citricarpa Conidia from Infected Citrus Fruit,” Scientific Reports, 4, 6568.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Mojić, M., Bogdanović Pristov, J., Maksimović-Ivanić, D., Jones, D. R., Stanić, M., Mijatović, S., and Spasojević, I. (2014). “Extracellular Iron Diminishes Anticancer Effects of Vitamin C: An in Vitro Study,” Scientific Reports, 4, 5955.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quinlan, J., and VanderBrug, J. (2016). Gender Lens Investing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Müller, T. (Ed.). (2014). Nuel Belnap on Indeterminism and Free Action. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Jähnig, N., Göthel, T., and Glesner, S. (2016). Refinement-Based Verification of Communicating Unstructured CodeIn R. De Nicola and E. Kühn (Eds.), Software Engineering and Formal Methods: 14th International Conference, SEFM 2016, Held as Part of STAF 2016, Vienna, Austria, July 4-8, 2016, Proceedings (pp. 61–75). 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 Small Business Management.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, May 23). Brazilian Zika Virus Strain Confirmed In Africa For First Time. Retrieved 30 October 2018, from IFLScience website: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/zika-virus-confirmed-africa-first-time/

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. (1990). Aviation Safety: FAA Is Considering Changes to Aviation Medical Standards (No. RCED-90-68FS). 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

Griess, J. O. (2010). A Canine Audience: The Effect of Animal-Assisted Therapy on Reading Progress among Students Identified with Learning Disabilities (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

(nyt), S. K. (2001, October 16). “World Briefing | Europe: Abkhazia: Air Strikes On Rebels,” New York Times, p. A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sur, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Iwasaki and Medzhitov, 2010; Sur, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Iwasaki and Medzhitov, 2010)
Three authors: (Perryman, Clark, and West, 2014)
6 or more authors: (Mojić et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Small Business Management
ISSN (print)	0047-2778
ISSN (online)	1540-627X
Scope