How to format your references using the BRQ Business Research Quarterly citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for BRQ Business Research Quarterly. 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

Dunn, B., 2012. Cancer: Solving an age-old problem. Nature 483, S2-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Toyoshima, C., Nomura, H., 2002. Structural changes in the calcium pump accompanying the dissociation of calcium. Nature 418, 605–611.

A journal article with 3 authors

Canfield, D.E., Glazer, A.N., Falkowski, P.G., 2010. The evolution and future of Earth’s nitrogen cycle. Science 330, 192–196.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Grenfell, B.T., Pybus, O.G., Gog, J.R., Wood, J.L.N., Daly, J.M., Mumford, J.A., Holmes, E.C., 2004. Unifying the epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics of pathogens. Science 303, 327–332.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pavlović, T., Alvarez, I., Blanco-Cano, R., Grisales, A., Osorio, A., Sánchez, A., 2008. 100 Years of Spanish Cinema. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Sacchi, C., Bellalta, B., Vinel, A., Schlegel, C., Granelli, F., Zhang, Y. (Eds.), 2011. Multiple Access Communications: 4th International Workshop, MACOM 2011, Trento, Italy, September 12-13, 2011. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Morita, K., 2016. Policies Towards Tackling Climate Change and Their Compatibility with the WTO, in: Nakanishi, Y. (Ed.), Contemporary Issues in Environmental Law: The EU and Japan, Environmental Protection in the European Union. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 63–86.

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 BRQ Business Research Quarterly.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Scientists Trace The Evolution Of Beer [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-trace-evolution-beer/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1976. Methodology Used in Lease-Versus-Purchase Decision for Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (No. LCD-76-127). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Zhang, Y., 2013. Crossroads A World War II story (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

Crow, K., 2003. Fish Are Running, Not the Meter. New York Times 147.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dunn, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Dunn, 2012; Toyoshima and Nomura, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Toyoshima and Nomura, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Grenfell et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	BRQ Business Research Quarterly
ISSN (print)	2340-9436
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