How to format your references using the Journal of Business and Psychology citation style

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

Calegari, F. (2014). Neurodevelopment. Tossed out to save the masses. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6215), 1298–1299.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bruick, R. K., & McKnight, S. L. (2002). Transcription. Oxygen sensing gets a second wind. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5556), 807–808.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, K., Zhang, Y., & Wang, S. (2013). Enhancing thermoelectric properties of organic composites through hierarchical nanostructures. Scientific Reports, 3, 3448.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Raman, V., Martensen, S. A., Reisman, D., Evron, E., Odenwald, W. F., Jaffee, E., Marks, J., & Sukumar, S. (2000). Compromised HOXA5 function can limit p53 expression in human breast tumours. Nature, 405(6789), 974–978.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beach, G. J. (2013). The U.S. Technology Skills Gap. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Palade, V., Jain, L., & Bocaniala, C. D. (Eds.). (2006). Computational Intelligence in Fault Diagnosis. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Shahbazian, S. (2016). Extending the Topological Analysis and Seeking the Real-Space Subsystems in Non-Coulombic Systems with Homogeneous Potential Energy Functions. In R. Chauvin, C. Lepetit, B. Silvi, & E. Alikhani (Eds.), Applications of Topological Methods in Molecular Chemistry (pp. 89–100). Springer International Publishing.

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 Journal of Business and Psychology.

Blog post

Evans, K. (2016, October 3). Even Remote Deep-Sea Animals Are Ingesting Microplastics, Study Finds. 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. (1993). Transition From School to Work: H.R. 2884 Addresses Components of Comprehensive Strategy (T-HRD-93-32). 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

Castro Deller, E. (2013). Recognizing signs of dementia: A curriculum for child welfare workers [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

Crow, K. (2000, July 23). At This Park, There’s No Such Thing as a Free Bench. New York Times, 147.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Calegari, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bruick & McKnight, 2002; Calegari, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Bruick & McKnight, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Raman et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Business and Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Bus. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0889-3268
ISSN (online)	1573-353X
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting Business and International Management General Psychology Applied Psychology