How to format your references using the Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research. 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

Check, E. (2003). National Academies launch grants for interdisciplinary work. Nature, 422(6934), 791.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tomita, K., & Weiner, A. M. (2001). Collaboration between CC- and A-adding enzymes to build and repair the 3’-terminal CCA of tRNA in Aquifex aeolicus. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5545), 1334–1336.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ezawa, M., Tanaka, Y., & Nagaosa, N. (2013). Topological phase transition without gap closing. Scientific reports, 3, 2790.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Contopoulos-Ioannidis, D. G., Alexiou, G. A., Gouvias, T. C., & Ioannidis, J. P. A. (2008). Medicine. Life cycle of translational research for medical interventions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5894), 1298–1299.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sheldrake, A. L. (2005). Handbook of Electrical Engineering. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Shareefdeen, Z., & Singh, A. (Eds.). (2005). Biotechnology for Odor and Air Pollution Control. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Haberdar, H., & Albayrak, S. (2006). A Two-Stage Visual Turkish Sign Language Recognition System Based on Global and Local Features. In F. Esposito, Z. W. Raś, D. Malerba, & G. Semeraro (Eds.), Foundations of Intelligent Systems: 16th International Symposium, ISMIS 2006, Bari, Italy, September 27-29, 2006. Proceedings (pp. 29–37). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Global Entrepreneurship Research.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, October 27). Why Can’t We See Stars In Space Photographs? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/why-can-t-we-see-stars-in-space-photographs/. 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. (1995). National Airspace System: Assessment of FAA’s Efforts to Augment the Global Positioning System (No. T-RCED-95-219). 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

Dusso, A. P. (2010). The psychology of institutional development: How parties’ willingness to accept risk affects the districts they draw and the seats they win (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Hartocollis, A. (2015, June 17). New Girl in School: Transgender Surgery at 18. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Check 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Check 2003; Tomita and Weiner 2001).

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

Two authors: (Tomita and Weiner 2001)
Three or more authors: (Contopoulos-Ioannidis et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research
Abbreviation	J. Glob. Entrep.. Res.
ISSN (print)	2228-7566
ISSN (online)	2251-7316
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