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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asian Journal of Business Ethics. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Moore, J. E. (2010). The birth of topological insulators. Nature, 464(7286), 194–198.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lewis, J. A., & Ahn, B. Y. (2015). Device fabrication: Three-dimensional printed electronics. Nature, 518(7537), 42–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

Engler, H. S., Spencer, K. C., & Gilbert, L. E. (2000). Preventing cyanide release from leaves. Nature, 406(6792), 144–145.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Cao, T., Wei, C., Simpson, R. E., Zhang, L., & Cryan, M. J. (2014). Fast tuning of double Fano resonance using a phase-change metamaterial under low power intensity. Scientific reports, 4, 4463.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krause, T. R. (2005). Leading with Safety. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bolc, L., Tadeusiewicz, R., Chmielewski, L. J., & Wojciechowski, K. (Eds.). (2010). Computer Vision and Graphics: International Conference, ICCVG 2010, Warsaw, Poland, September 20-22, 2010, Proceedings, Part II (Vol. 6375). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Luo, T., Chen, S., Xu, G., & Zhou, J. (2013). Sentiment Analysis. In S. Chen, G. Xu, & J. Zhou (Eds.), Trust-based Collective View Prediction (pp. 53–68). New York, NY: 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 Asian Journal of Business Ethics.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2017, February 10). Endangered Saiga Antelopes Struck Down By Another Mass Die-Off. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/endangered-saiga-antelopes-struck-down-by-another-mass-die-off/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2003). Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Comments on Recent GAO Report on its Enterprise Architecture Efforts (No. GAO-04-190R). 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

Gomes, M. A. (2017). Cognitive science approaches to actor training: Interrogating conceptual language (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Sisario, B. (2017, October 27). How Did It Feel to Be on Their Own? New York Times, p. AR17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moore 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Lewis and Ahn 2015; Moore 2010).

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

Two authors: (Lewis and Ahn 2015)
Three or more authors: (Cao et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asian Journal of Business Ethics
Abbreviation	Asian J. Bus. Ethics
ISSN (print)	2210-6723
ISSN (online)	2210-6731
Scope