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

Pielke, R. A., Jr. (2005). Meteorology: are there trends in hurricane destruction? Nature, 438(7071), E11; discussion E13.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pearce, T. M., & Moran, D. W. (2012). Strategy-dependent encoding of planned arm movements in the dorsal premotor cortex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6097), 984–988.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rogers, J. A., Someya, T., & Huang, Y. (2010). Materials and mechanics for stretchable electronics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5973), 1603–1607.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Cooper, E. R., Andrews, C. D., Wheatley, P. S., Webb, P. B., Wormald, P., & Morris, R. E. (2004). Ionic liquids and eutectic mixtures as solvent and template in synthesis of zeolite analogues. Nature, 430(7003), 1012–1016.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Choi, N.-E., & Han, J. H. (2015). How Flavor Works. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Chinesta, F. (2007). Advances in Material Forming: Esaform 10 years on (E. Cueto, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Felici, M. (2007). Trust Strategies and Policies in Complex Socio-technical Safety-Critical Domains: An Analysis of the Air Traffic Management Domain. In N. Guelfi & D. Buchs (Eds.), Rapid Integration of Software Engineering Techniques: Third International Workshop, RISE 2006, Geneva, Switzerland, September 13-15, 2006. Revised Selected Papers (pp. 51–65). 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 World Business.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, October 20). Air Pollution Found To Kill More People In Africa Than Malnutrition Or Unsafe Drinking Water. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/air-pollution-found-to-kill-more-people-in-africa-than-malnutrition-or-unsafe-drinking-water/

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. (2012). Batteries and Energy Storage: Federal Initiatives Supported Similar Technologies and Goals but Had Key Differences (GAO-12-842). 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

Tang, J. (2013). Understanding the college experiences of Cambodian American students [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

Kelly, M. (1992, July 17). A Life of Advantage, Enhanced by the Will to Excel. New York Times, A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pielke, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Pearce & Moran, 2012; Pielke, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Pearce & Moran, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Cooper et al., 2004)

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