How to format your references using the European Business Organization Law Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Business Organization Law Review. 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

Robinson TE (2004) Neuroscience. Addicted rats. Science 305:951–953

A journal article with 2 authors

Linkenhoker BA, Knudsen EI (2002) Incremental training increases the plasticity of the auditory space map in adult barn owls. Nature 419:293–296

A journal article with 3 authors

Dudley AT, Ros MA, Tabin CJ (2002) A re-examination of proximodistal patterning during vertebrate limb development. Nature 418:539–544

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kim S, Lee D, Liu X, et al (2013) Molecular recognition using receptor-free nanomechanical infrared spectroscopy based on a quantum cascade laser. Sci Rep 3:1111

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gunn DM (2016) Judges. Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA, USA

An edited book

Alpas H, Smith M, Kulmyrzaev A (eds) (2012) Strategies for Achieving Food Security in Central Asia. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Schadendorf D, Kochs C, Livingstone E (2013) Treatment of Primary Tumor and Locoregional Disease. In: Kochs C, Livingstone E (eds) Handbook of Cutaneous Melanoma: A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment. Springer Healthcare Ltd., Tarporley, pp 53–77

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 European Business Organization Law Review.

Blog post

Luntz S (2016) Plant-Eating Dinosaur Success Was In The Jaws. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1990) Customs Automation: Duties and Other Collections Vulnerable to Fraud and Abuse. 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

Tovar L (2009) Perceived life satisfaction of previously undocumented Latino immigrants. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

de la MERCED MJ, Steel E (2017) 21st Century Fox and Blackstone May Be Devising a Joint Offer for Tribune Media. New York Times B3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robinson 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Linkenhoker and Knudsen 2002; Robinson 2004).

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

Two authors: (Linkenhoker and Knudsen 2002)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Business Organization Law Review
Abbreviation	Eur. Bus. Organ. Law Rev.
ISSN (print)	1566-7529
ISSN (online)	1741-6205
Scope	Business and International Management Law Political Science and International Relations