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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for South African Journal of Business Management (SAJBM). 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Yamamoto, A. (2000). Crowded universities cramp more than just students’ style. Nature, 404(6773), 13.

A journal article with 2 authors

Noudoost, B., & Moore, T. (2011). Control of visual cortical signals by prefrontal dopamine. Nature, 474(7351), 372–375.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chuck, A. L., Turner, S. M., & Liss, P. S. (2002). Direct evidence for a marine source of C1 and C2 alkyl nitrates. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5584), 1151–1154.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Shi, Y., Sawada, J.-I., Sui, G., Affar, E. B., Whetstine, J. R., Lan, F., Ogawa, H., Luke, M. P.-S., Nakatani, Y., & Shi, Y. (2003). Coordinated histone modifications mediated by a CtBP co-repressor complex. Nature, 422(6933), 735–738.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chin, W. C. (2014). Wave Propagation in Drilling, Well Logging and Reservoir Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jensen, R. R. (2005). Geo-Spatial Technologies in Urban Environments (J. D. Gatrell & D. D. McLean, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Stenzig, J., & Foo, R. S.-Y. (2016). DNA Methylation in Heart Failure. In J. Backs & T. A. McKinsey (Eds.), Epigenetics in Cardiac Disease (pp. 75–102). 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 South African Journal of Business Management.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 10). Genetic Tweak Makes Mouse Brain Cells Behave Like Primates’. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/genetic-tweak-makes-mouse-brain-cells-behave-primates/

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. (1991). FAA Budget: Key Issues in Facilities and Equipment and Operations Accounts Need Resolution (T-RCED-91-58). 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

Adler, A. D. (2012). Change in Automatic and Strategic Cognition: An Examination of Cognitive Therapy for Depression [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

Walsh, M. W. (2015, September 26). Rhode Island Averts Pension Crisis and Higher Tax. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Yamamoto, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Noudoost & Moore, 2011; Yamamoto, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Noudoost & Moore, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Shi et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	South African Journal of Business Management
ISSN (print)	2078-5585
ISSN (online)	2078-5976
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