How to format your references using the European Journal of Family Business citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Family Business. 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

Arthur, C. (2013). Academics should not remain silent on hacking. Nature, 504(7480), 333.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brookes, D., & Etkina, E. (2010). SPORE series winner. Physical phenomena in real time. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6004), 605–606.

A journal article with 3 authors

O’Nions, K., Pitman, R., & Marsh, C. (2002). Science of nuclear warheads. Nature, 415(6874), 853–857.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

McKinney, J. D., Höner zu Bentrup, K., Muñoz-Elías, E. J., Miczak, A., Chen, B., Chan, W. T., Swenson, D., Sacchettini, J. C., Jacobs, W. R., Jr, & Russell, D. G. (2000). Persistence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in macrophages and mice requires the glyoxylate shunt enzyme isocitrate lyase. Nature, 406(6797), 735–738.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. (2014). MAK- und BAT-Werte-Liste 2014. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Singh, V. K., Srivastava, H. M., Venturino, E., Resch, M., & Gupta, V. (Eds.). (2016). Modern Mathematical Methods and High Performance Computing in Science and Technology: M3HPCST, Ghaziabad, India, December 2015 (Vol. 171). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lokman, A. S., & Zain, J. M. (2010). Chatbot Enhanced Algorithms: A Case Study on Implementation in Bahasa Malaysia Human Language. In F. Zavoral, J. Yaghob, P. Pichappan, & E. El-Qawasmeh (Eds.), Networked Digital Technologies: Second International Conference, NDT 2010, Prague, Czech Republic, July 7-9, 2010. Proceedings, Part I (pp. 31–44). 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 European Journal of Family Business.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, May 24). Two Young Impact Craters Have Just Been Spotted On The Moon’s South Pole. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/two-young-impact-craters-have-just-been-spotted-moons-south-pole/

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. (2011). Commercial Launch Vehicles: NASA Taking Measures to Manage Delays and Risks (GAO-11-692T). 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

Joseph, S. (2009). A comprehensive evaluation of a school system’s grow your own principal preparation program [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

Koblin, J. (2017, September 12). Oliver Extends HBO Contract. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Arthur, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Arthur, 2013; Brookes & Etkina, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Brookes & Etkina, 2010)
Three or more authors: (McKinney et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Family Business
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Fam. Bus.
ISSN (print)	2444-877X
Scope