How to format your references using the European research on management and business economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European research on 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

Smaglik, P. (2003). Working for peanuts. Nature, 425(6955), 323.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hauser, M. D., & Bever, T. (2008). Behavior. A biolinguistic agenda. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5904), 1057–1059.

A journal article with 3 authors

Merz, A. J., So, M., & Sheetz, M. P. (2000). Pilus retraction powers bacterial twitching motility. Nature, 407(6800), 98–102.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Darieva, Z., Bulmer, R., Pic-Taylor, A., Doris, K. S., Geymonat, M., Sedgwick, S. G., Morgan, B. A., & Sharrocks, A. D. (2006). Polo kinase controls cell-cycle-dependent transcription by targeting a coactivator protein. Nature, 444(7118), 494–498.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McBee, J. (2009). Mastering Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 SP1. Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Hougaard, S. (2009). The Relationship Marketer: Rethinking Strategic Relationship Marketing (M. Bjerre, Ed.; Second Edition). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

del Puerto, F. G., & Adrián, M. M. (2014). The Incidence of Previous Foreign Language Contact in a Lexical Availability Task: A Study of Senior Learners. In R. M. Jiménez Catalán (Ed.), Lexical Availability in English and Spanish as a Second Language (pp. 53–68). Springer Netherlands.

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 research on management and business economics.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, March 22). Mars One Finalist Announces That It’s All A Scam. 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. (2013). Department of Transportation: Key Issues and Management Challenges, 2013 (GAO-13-402T). 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

Akiyama, K. M. (2017). Taste Detection in Post-Laryngectomy Head and Neck Cancer Survivors and Its Effect on Dietary Intake and Malnutrition Status [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

Fitzsimmons, E. G., & Buettner, R. (2015, February 5). Rail Crossing Accidents Decline Nationwide, but Less So in New York Region. New York Times, A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Hauser & Bever, 2008; Smaglik, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Hauser & Bever, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Darieva et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	European research on management and business economics
ISSN (print)	2444-8834
Scope	Business and International Management Marketing Strategy and Management Economics and Econometrics