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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Business Logistics (JBL). 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

Guenin, L. M. 2001. “Essays on Science and Society. Morals and Primordials.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 292 (5522): 1659–1660.

A journal article with 2 authors

Heath, R. J., and Rock, C. O. 2000. “A Triclosan-Resistant Bacterial Enzyme.” Nature 406 (6792): 145–146.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shelby, R. A., Smith, D. R., and Schultz, S. 2001. “Experimental Verification of a Negative Index of Refraction.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 292 (5514): 77–79.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Högbom, M., Stenmark, P., Voevodskaya, N., McClarty, G., Gräslund, A., and Nordlund, P. 2004. “The Radical Site in Chlamydial Ribonucleotide Reductase Defines a New R2 Subclass.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 305 (5681): 245–248.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mubarak, S. 2010. Construction Project Scheduling and Control. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hagedorn, P., and Spelsberg-Korspeter, G., eds. 2014. Active and Passive Vibration Control of Structures. 1st ed. Vol. 558. CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences. Vienna: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Postema, P. G., Van den Berg, M. P., Van Tintelen, J. P., Van den Heuvel, F., Grundeken, M., Hofman, N., Van der Roest, W. P., et al. 2014. “Founder Mutations in the Netherlands: SCN5a 1795insD, the First Described Arrhythmia Overlap Syndrome and One of the Largest and Best Characterised Families Worldwide*.” In Founder Mutations in Inherited Cardiac Diseases in the Netherlands, edited by Arthur A. M. Wilde and J. Peter van Tintelen, 21–27. Houten: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum.

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 Logistics.

Blog post

Luntz, S. 2015. “Success Against Most Common Form Of Cystic Fibrosis.” IFLScience. IFLScience. May 19. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/success-against-most-common-form-cystic-fibrosis/.

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. 1997. NHTSA: Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards and Occupant Crash Protection. OGC-97-33. 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

Xiao, E. A. 2017. “Understanding Employment to Entrepreneurship Transitions among Women Working in the Tech Industry.” Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA: 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

Cyran, R., and Hay, G. 2010. “New Ventures Win Old Financiers.” New York Times, July 8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Guenin 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Guenin 2001; Heath and Rock 2000).

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

Two authors: (Heath and Rock 2000)
Three or more authors: (Högbom et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Business Logistics
ISSN (online)	2158-1592
Scope