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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of World Business. 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

Thomas, D. J. (2004). Evidence for deep-water production in the North Pacific Ocean during the early Cenozoic warm interval. Nature, 430(6995), 65–68.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gross, R. A., & Kalra, B. (2002). Biodegradable polymers for the environment. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5582), 803–807.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ma, J., Wollmann, R., & Lindquist, S. (2002). Neurotoxicity and neurodegeneration when PrP accumulates in the cytosol. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5599), 1781–1785.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Crompvoets, F. M., Bethlem, H. L., Jongma, R. T., & Meijer, G. (2001). A prototype storage ring for neutral molecules. Nature, 411(6834), 174–176.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gramß, T., Bornholdt, S., Groß, M., Mitchell, M., & Pellizzari, T. (2005). Non-Standard Computation. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Hyman, D. (Ed.). (2005). Improving Healthcare: A Dose of Competition A Report By The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice (July, 2004), with various Supplementary Materials (Vol. 9). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Pradel, C. (2015). Winged Immortals and Heavenly Beings Across the East Asian Skies. In N. Gutschow & K. Weiler (Eds.), Spirits in Transcultural Skies: Auspicious and Protective Spirits in Artefacts and Architecture Between East and West (pp. 99–123). 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 World Business.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, May 25). How Many Colors Can You See In This Spiraling Optical Illusion? IFLScience; 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. (2011). Intercity Passenger and Freight Rail: Better Data and Communication of Uncertainties Can Help Decision Makers Understand Benefits and Trade-offs of Programs and Policies (GAO-11-290). 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

Ishutov, S. (2013). Tectonic characterization of the THUMS-Huntington Beach fault, offshore southern California [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

GEORGE GENE GUSTINES; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF. (2010, April 9). Motion Comic Recalls Rescuers In Holocaust. New York Times, C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Thomas, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Gross & Kalra, 2002; Thomas, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Gross & Kalra, 2002)
Three authors: (Ma et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Crompvoets et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of World Business
Abbreviation	J. World Bus.
ISSN (print)	1090-9516
Scope	Business and International Management Marketing Finance