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

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

Pain, E. (2005). The class of 2005. Spain: a physicist keen to put things in order. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5747), 520–521.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stark, L. A., & Pompei, K. (2010). Winner of Science Prize for Online Resources in Education. Making genetics easy to understand. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5965), 538–539.

A journal article with 3 authors

Depue, B. E., Curran, T., & Banich, M. T. (2007). Prefrontal regions orchestrate suppression of emotional memories via a two-phase process. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5835), 215–219.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Bisazza, A., Butterworth, B., Piffer, L., Bahrami, B., Miletto Petrazzini, M. E., & Agrillo, C. (2014). Collective enhancement of numerical acuity by meritocratic leadership in fish. Scientific Reports, 4, 4560.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Démoulin, B., & Besnier, P. (2011). Electromagnetic Reverberation Chambers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Leal Filho, W. (2015). Food Waste and Sustainable Food Waste Management in the Baltic Sea Region (M. Kovaleva, Ed.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, Q., & Hsu, M. (2010). Data Stream Analytics as Cloud Service for Mobile Applications. In R. Meersman, T. Dillon, & P. Herrero (Eds.), On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, OTM 2010: Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, IS, DOA and ODBASE, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, October 25-29, 2010, Proceedings, Part II (pp. 709–726). 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 Family Business Strategy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, June 25). Plan to build ‘CSI Elephant’ uses DNA forensics to track poachers. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/plan-build-‘csi-elephant’-uses-dna-forensics-track-poachers/

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). Airline Deregulation: Addressing the Air Service Problems of Some Communities (T-RCED-97-187). 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

Wenger, M. C. (2011). Free-choice family learning experiences at informal astronomy observing events [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Beard, M. (2017, May 11). Lives in Ruins. New York Times, BR17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pain, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Pain, 2005; Stark & Pompei, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Stark & Pompei, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Bisazza et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Family Business Strategy
Abbreviation	J. Fam. Bus. Strat.
ISSN (print)	1877-8585
Scope	Strategy and Management Economics and Econometrics