How to format your references using the European Journal of Management and Business Economics citation style

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

Smith, O. (2001). Chemistry. Nota bene: know thine enemy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5545), 1298.

A journal article with 2 authors

Davidson, K., & Smith, N. (2000). A massive cool dust torus around eta Carinae? Nature, 405(6786), 532.

A journal article with 3 authors

Losos, J. B., Hillis, D. M., & Greene, H. W. (2012). Evolution. Who speaks with a forked tongue? Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6113), 1428–1429.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Xu, Q., Liu, F., Liu, Y., Cui, K., Feng, X., Zhang, W., & Huang, Y. (2013). Broadband light absorption enhancement in dye-sensitized solar cells with Au-Ag alloy popcorn nanoparticles. Scientific Reports, 3, 2112.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gordon, M. J., Jr. (2010). Total Quality Process Control for Injection Molding. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rizos, C., & Willis, P. (Eds.). (2014). Earth on the Edge: Science for a Sustainable Planet: Proceedings of the IAG General Assembly, Melbourne, Australia, June 28 - July 2, 2011 (Vol. 139). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Sheard, T. (2007). Generic Programming in Ωmega. In R. Backhouse, J. Gibbons, R. Hinze, & J. Jeuring (Eds.), Datatype-Generic Programming: International Spring School, SSDGP 2006, Nottingham, UK, April 24–27, 2006, Revised Lectures (pp. 258–284). 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 Management and Business Economics.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015, August 17). Misinformed Spiders Lead Colonies To Disaster. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (1991). Vulnerabilities in the Stafford Student Loan Program (T-HRD-91-33). 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

Haxton, S. A. (2017). Student Risk Perception in the Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

Feeney, K. (2010, October 10). Southern Barbecue, Up North. New York Times, NJ13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Davidson & Smith, 2000; Smith, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Davidson & Smith, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Xu et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Management and Business Economics
ISSN (print)	2444-8451
Scope	Business and International Management Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Strategy and Management