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

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

Valente, T. W. 2012. Network interventions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6090): 49–53.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cuervo, R., & Chimal-Monroy, J. 2013. Chemical activation of RARβ induces post-embryonically bilateral limb duplication during Xenopus limb regeneration. Scientific reports, 3: 1886.

A journal article with 3 authors

Miyamoto, K., Miyake, S., & Yamamura, T. 2001. A synthetic glycolipid prevents autoimmune encephalomyelitis by inducing TH2 bias of natural killer T cells. Nature, 413(6855): 531–534.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fotin, A., Cheng, Y., Grigorieff, N., Walz, T., Harrison, S. C., & Kirchhausen, T. 2004. Structure of an auxilin-bound clathrin coat and its implications for the mechanism of uncoating. Nature, 432(7017): 649–653.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coombs, W. T., & Holladay, S. J. 2011. Managing Corporate Social Responsibility. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Vlodaver, Z., Wilson, R. F., & Garry, D. J. (Eds.). 2012. Coronary Heart Disease: Clinical, Pathological, Imaging, and Molecular Profiles. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Greilich, A., Yakovlev, D. R., Bayer, M., Shabaev, A., & Efros, A. L. 2009. Electron-Spin Dynamics in Self-Assembled (In,Ga)As/GaAs Quantum Dots. In M. Fanciulli (Ed.), Electron Spin Resonance and Related Phenomena in Low-Dimensional Structures: 51–80. 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 International Business Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. Myth Of The ‘Missing Link’ In Evolution Does Science No Favors. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/myth-missing-link-evolution-does-science-no-favors/. Accessed 30 October 2018, . IFLScience.

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. 2007. Railroad Safety--Responses to Posthearing Questions. No. GAO-07-610R. 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

Raynor, S. L. 2017. A Critical Quantitative Examination of the Relationship between Constructs of Engagement and Latino College Completion. Doctoral dissertation. Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Lyman, R. 2017. Polish President Offers Plan to End Court Crisis, but the Response Is Tepid. New York Times, September 25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Valente, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Cuervo & Chimal-Monroy, 2013; Valente, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Cuervo & Chimal-Monroy, 2013)
Three authors: (Miyamoto, Miyake, & Yamamura, 2001)
7 or more authors: (Fotin, Cheng, Grigorieff, Walz, Harrison, & Kirchhausen, 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of International Business Studies
Abbreviation	J. Int. Bus. Stud.
ISSN (print)	0047-2506
ISSN (online)	1478-6990
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting Business and International Management Management of Technology and Innovation Strategy and Management Economics and Econometrics