How to format your references using the Business History citation style

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

Zheng, J. Q. “Turning of Nerve Growth Cones Induced by Localized Increases in Intracellular Calcium Ions.” Nature 403, no. 6765 (January 6, 2000): 89–93.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lehner, Nicolas, and J. Christopher Howk. “A Reservoir of Ionized Gas in the Galactic Halo to Sustain Star Formation in the Milky Way.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 334, no. 6058 (November 18, 2011): 955–58.

A journal article with 3 authors

Oberholzer, S., E. V. Sukhorukov, and C. Schönenberger. “Crossover between Classical and Quantum Shot Noise in Chaotic Cavities.” Nature 415, no. 6873 (February 14, 2002): 765–67.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kim, Dae-Hyeong, Jong-Hyun Ahn, Won Mook Choi, Hoon-Sik Kim, Tae-Ho Kim, Jizhou Song, Yonggang Y. Huang, Zhuangjian Liu, Chun Lu, and John A. Rogers. “Stretchable and Foldable Silicon Integrated Circuits.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 320, no. 5875 (April 25, 2008): 507–11.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Durenard, Eugene A. Professional Automated Trading. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

An edited book

Spink, Amanda, and Bernhard J. Jansen, eds. Web Search: Public Searching of the Web. Vol. 6. Information Science and Knowledge Management. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Tolk, Andreas. “Modeling and Simulation Interoperability Concepts for Multidisciplinarity, Interdisciplinarity, and Transdisciplinarity – Implications for Computational Intelligence Enabling Autonomous Systems.” In Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems: Second International Workshop, MESAS 2015, Prague, Czech Republic, April 29-30, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, edited by Jan Hodicky, 60–74. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

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 Business History.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. “Researchers Discover Huge Underground Neolithic ‘Super-Henge.’” IFLScience. IFLScience, September 7, 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/huge-underground-super-henge-could-be-britains-biggest-neolithic-monument/.

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. “Federal Procurement of ADP Systems.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, November 16, 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wirtz, Yannick. “Strain Variation between the Monterey and Sisquoc Formations, Southern Santa Maria Basin, California, USA: Implications for Structural Assessment of Fold and Thrust Belts.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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, Mary Williams. “Illinois Is Accused Of Fraud By S.E.C.” New York Times, March 12, 2013.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Business History
Abbreviation	Bus. Hist.
ISSN (print)	0007-6791
ISSN (online)	1743-7938
Scope	History Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) Business and International Management