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

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

Colliex, C. (2015). Chemistry. Tracking the merry dance of nanoparticles. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6245), 232–233.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fossum, A., & Carlsson, M. (2005). High-frequency acoustic waves are not sufficient to heat the solar chromosphere. Nature, 435(7044), 919–921.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gray, R. D., Drummond, A. J., & Greenhill, S. J. (2009). Language phylogenies reveal expansion pulses and pauses in Pacific settlement. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5913), 479–483.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Galloway, J. N., Townsend, A. R., Erisman, J. W., Bekunda, M., Cai, Z., Freney, J. R., et al. (2008). Transformation of the nitrogen cycle: recent trends, questions, and potential solutions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5878), 889–892.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hong, G. (2015). Causality in a Social World. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Romero, A. J. (2014). Preventing Adolescent Depression and Suicide Among Latinas: Resilience Research and Theory. (L. M. Edwards, S. Bauman, & M. K. Ritter, Eds.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Phipps, A. I., & Li, C. I. (2010). Endogenous Hormones. In C. Li (Ed.), Breast Cancer Epidemiology (pp. 73–87). New York, NY: 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 Journal of Business Ethics.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, October 24). Floating Plastic Found Within The Arctic Circle. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/floating-plastic-found-within-arctic-circle/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2010). Global Positioning System: Challenges in Sustaining and Upgrading Capabilities Persist (No. GAO-10-636). Washington, DC: 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

Al Hashimi, H. (2017). Local Measurement and Characterization via Fluorescing Materials for Phase Change Heat Transfer Applications (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Grynbaum, M. M. (2017, October 9). Right-Wing Provocateur Is Given More Fodder for His Conspiracies. New York Times, p. A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Colliex 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Colliex 2015; Fossum and Carlsson 2005).

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

Two authors: (Fossum and Carlsson 2005)
Three or more authors: (Galloway et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Business Ethics
Abbreviation	J. Bus. Ethics
ISSN (print)	0167-4544
ISSN (online)	1573-0697
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) General Business, Management and Accounting Business and International Management Economics and Econometrics Law