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

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

Hamilton, W. B. (2007). Comment on “A vestige of Earth’s oldest ophiolite.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5851), 746; author reply 746.

A journal article with 2 authors

He, W., & Ren, T. (2013). Basilar membrane vibration is not involved in the reverse propagation of otoacoustic emissions. Scientific Reports, 3, 1874.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mace, K. A., Pearson, J. C., & McGinnis, W. (2005). An epidermal barrier wound repair pathway in Drosophila is mediated by grainy head. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5720), 381–385.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Banerjee, S., Meng, J., Das, S., Krishnan, A., Haworth, J., Charboneau, R., Zeng, Y., Ramakrishnan, S., & Roy, S. (2013). Morphine induced exacerbation of sepsis is mediated by tempering endotoxin tolerance through modulation of miR-146a. Scientific Reports, 3, 1977.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lad, B. K., Shrivastava, D., & Kulkarni, M. S. (2016). Machine Tool Reliability. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chuang, T.-J., Anderson, P. M., Wu, M.-K., & Hsieh, S. (Eds.). (2006). Nanomechanics of Materials and Structures. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Siboni, S., & Bonavina, L. (2016). Esophageal Non-bleeding Emergencies: Minimally Invasive and Endoscopic Management of Esophageal Perforations. In S. Di Saverio, F. Catena, L. Ansaloni, F. Coccolini, & G. Velmahos (Eds.), Acute Care Surgery Handbook: Volume 2 Common Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Emergencies (pp. 43–54). 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 Economics and Business.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, January 27). Certain Commonly Used Drugs May Increase Risk Of Dementia. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/certain-commonly-used-drugs-may-increase-risk-dementia/

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. (1974). Assessment of the Work Incentive Program in Washington State (B-164031(3)). 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

Oliva, D. A. (2012). Technological mediation: The implications of technology on the human experience [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

Murphy, M. J. O. (2016, August 5). Looking Back (and Learning From) ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show.’ New York Times, C22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hamilton, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Hamilton, 2007; He & Ren, 2013).

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

Two authors: (He & Ren, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Banerjee et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Economics and Business
Abbreviation	J. Econ. Bus.
ISSN (print)	0148-6195
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting Economics and Econometrics