How to format your references using the Business Horizons citation style

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

Dzenis, Y. (2004). Material science. Spinning continuous fibers for nanotechnology. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5679), 1917–1919.

A journal article with 2 authors

Verchère, A., & Menon, A. K. (2015). Structural biology: Lipid gymnastics. Nature, 524(7566), 420–422.

A journal article with 3 authors

Morens, D. M., Subbarao, K., & Taubenberger, J. K. (2012). Engineering H5N1 avian influenza viruses to study human adaptation. Nature, 486(7403), 335–340.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Kong, A., Thorleifsson, G., Gudbjartsson, D. F., Masson, G., Sigurdsson, A., Jonasdottir, A., Walters, G. B., Jonasdottir, A., Gylfason, A., Kristinsson, K. T., Gudjonsson, S. A., Frigge, M. L., Helgason, A., Thorsteinsdottir, U., & Stefansson, K. (2010). Fine-scale recombination rate differences between sexes, populations and individuals. Nature, 467(7319), 1099–1103.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baker, H. K., & Martin, G. S. (2011). Capital Structure and Corporate Financing Decisions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Silverman, H., & Ruggles, D. F. (Eds.). (2009). Intangible Heritage Embodied. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Huang, Y.-K. (2008). The Study of Customer Segmentation Examined by Catastrophe Model. In M. Oya, R. Uda, & C. Yasunobu (Eds.), Towards Sustainable Society on Ubiquitous Networks: The 8th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E 2008), September 24–16, 2008, Tokyo, Japan (pp. 37–48). Springer US.

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 Horizons.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, August 19). Smoking During Pregnancy Could Affect Your Grandchildren’s Growth. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/smoking-during-pregnancy-could-affect-your-grandchildrens-growth/

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. (2005). Space Shuttle: Status of NASA’s Efforts to Address Workforce Issues Related to the Space Shuttle’s Retirement (GAO-05-718T). 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

Donohue, J. (2010). Resolving Past Liabilities for Future Reduction in Greenhouse Gases; Nuclear Energy and the Outstanding Federal Liability of Spent Nuclear Fuel [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Brantley, B. (2017, August 31). Hot for a Dairy Queen Sign. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dzenis, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Dzenis, 2004; Verchère & Menon, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Verchère & Menon, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Kong et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Business Horizons
Abbreviation	Bus. Horiz.
ISSN (print)	0007-6813
Scope	Business and International Management Marketing