How to format your references using the Business Research citation style

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

Hampsey, Michael. 2012. Molecular biology. A new direction for gene loops. Science (New York, N.Y.) 338: 624–625.

A journal article with 2 authors

Saavedra, Serguei, and Daniel B. Stouffer. 2013. “Disentangling nestedness” disentangled. Nature 500: E1-2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bruskotter, Jeremy T., Sherry A. Enzler, and Adrian Treves. 2011. Science and law. Rescuing wolves from politics: wildlife as a public trust resource. Science (New York, N.Y.) 333: 1828–1829.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wildermuth, Stephan, Sebastian Hofferberth, Igor Lesanovsky, Elmar Haller, L. Mauritz Andersson, Sönke Groth, Israel Bar-Joseph, Peter Krüger, and Jörg Schmiedmayer. 2005. Bose-Einstein condensates: microscopic magnetic-field imaging. Nature 435: 440.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stauffer, Howard B. 2007. Contemporary Bayesian and Frequentist Statistical Research Methods for Natural Resource Scientists. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sarkar, Mukul. 2013. A Biologically Inspired CMOS Image Sensor. Edited by Albert Theuwissen. Vol. 461. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Friedman, Menahem, and Abraham Kandel. 2011. Continuous Functions. In Calculus Light, ed. Abraham Kandel, 87–106. Intelligent Systems Reference Library. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Business Research.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen. 2015. Study Finds Bullying Affects Mental Health More Than Child Abuse. IFLScience. IFLScience. April 30.

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. Aviation Safety: FAA Management Practices for Technical Training Mostly Effective; Further Actions Could Enhance Results. GAO-05-728. 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

Grant, Justin Alexander. 2015. Far-field noise from a rotor in a wind tunnel. Doctoral dissertation, Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic 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

Barron, James. 2016. Commuters Catch a Tune, and Then the Bus Home. New York Times, October 19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hampsey 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Hampsey 2012; Saavedra and Stouffer 2013).

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

Two authors: (Saavedra and Stouffer 2013)
Three or more authors: (Wildermuth et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Business Research
Abbreviation	Bus. Res.
ISSN (print)	2198-3402
ISSN (online)	2198-2627
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