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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Business Venturing Insights. 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	Download the output style file
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

Orgel, L.E., 2004. Molecular biology. Retrospective: Francis Crick (1916-2004). Science 305, 1118.

A journal article with 2 authors

Arndt, M., Brand, C., 2015. QUANTUM MECHANICS. Interference of atomic clocks. Science 349, 1168–1169.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bishop, N.A., Lu, T., Yankner, B.A., 2010. Neural mechanisms of ageing and cognitive decline. Nature 464, 529–535.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mattesini, M., Belonoshko, A.B., Tkalčić, H., Buforn, E., Udías, A., Ahuja, R., 2013. Candy Wrapper for the Earth’s inner core. Sci. Rep. 3, 2096.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Summers, N., 2010. Managing Social Service Staff for Excellence. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Rowley, C.K., 2008. Readings in Public Choice and Constitutional Political Economy. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Grefenstette, E., Sadrzadeh, M., Clark, S., Coecke, B., Pulman, S., 2014. Concrete Sentence Spaces for Compositional Distributional Models of Meaning, in: Bunt, H., Bos, J., Pulman, S. (Eds.), Computing Meaning: Volume 4, Text, Speech and Language Technology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 71–86.

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 Venturing Insights.

Blog post

Evans, K., 2016. A Plastic Surgeon Used A Golden Mathematical Ratio To “Prove” This Is The Most Beautiful Person In The World [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/a-plastic-surgeon-used-a-golden-mathematical-ratio-to-prove-this-is-the-most-beautiful-person-in-the-world/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1978. Need for Active Alcohol Public Education Program (No. 088681). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Teater, M.R., 2009. Reentry and reintegration: A grant proposal for formerly incarcerated women (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Walsh, M.W., 2016. Bill to Ease Puerto Rico Through $72 Billion Debt Crisis Introduced in House. New York Times B8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Orgel, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Arndt and Brand, 2015; Orgel, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Arndt and Brand, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Mattesini et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Business Venturing Insights
Abbreviation	J. Bus. Ventur. Insights
ISSN (print)	2352-6734
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