How to format your references using the Future Business Journal citation style

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

Crow, J. M. (2012). HPV: The global burden. Nature, 488(7413), S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Denef, V. J., & Banfield, J. F. (2012). In situ evolutionary rate measurements show ecological success of recently emerged bacterial hybrids. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6080), 462–466.

A journal article with 3 authors

Iwai, M., Yokono, M., & Nakano, A. (2014). Visualizing structural dynamics of thylakoid membranes. Scientific Reports, 4, 3768.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Volkov, I., Banavar, J. R., Hubbell, S. P., & Maritan, A. (2007). Patterns of relative species abundance in rainforests and coral reefs. Nature, 450(7166), 45–49.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shover, L. (2010). Trading Options in Turbulent Markets. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Grieser, G., & Tanaka, Y. (Eds.). (2005). Intuitive Human Interfaces for Organizing and Accessing Intellectual Assets: International Workshop, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, March 1-5, 2004, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 3359). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Mohanty, M. S., & Rishabh, K. (2016). Financial Intermediation and Monetary Policy Transmission in EMEs: What has Changed Since the 2008 Crisis? In C. Ghate & K. M. Kletzer (Eds.), Monetary Policy in India: A Modern Macroeconomic Perspective (pp. 111–150). Springer India.

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 Future Business Journal.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, May 4). International Survey Reveals If Penis Size Really Does Matter. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/international-survey-reveals-if-penis-size-really-does-matter/

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. (1984). Tax Information Safeguard Activity Annual Report (GGD-84-83). 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

Alsubaihi, S. I. (2016). Challenges for women academic leaders to obtain senior leadership positions in higher education in Saudi Arabia [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Pilon, M. (2012, February 25). Bowling With World’s Best, Then Rejoining 8th Grade. New York Times, D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Crow, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Crow, 2012; Denef & Banfield, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Denef & Banfield, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Volkov et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Future Business Journal
Abbreviation	Futur. Bus. J.
ISSN (print)	2314-7210
Scope