How to format your references using the Journal of Small Business Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Small Business Management (JSBM). 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

Dawkins, R. (2010). “Retrospective. George C. Williams (1926-2010),” Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6000), 49.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hossfeld, U., and Olsson, L. (2002). “Portraits of Science. From the Modern Synthesis to Lysenkoism, and Back?,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5578), 55–56.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jiang, Y., Kirmizialtin, S., and Sanchez, I. C. (2014). “Dynamic Void Distribution in Myoglobin and Five Mutants,” Scientific Reports, 4, 4011.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bessereau, J. L., Wright, A., Williams, D. C., Schuske, K., Davis, M. W., and Jorgensen, E. M. (2001). “Mobilization of a Drosophila Transposon in the Caenorhabditis Elegans Germ Line,” Nature, 413(6851), 70–74.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Harte, L. (2013). Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987-2007. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Cao, B.-Y., Wang, G.-J., Guo, S.-Z., and Chen, S.-L. (Eds.). (2010). Fuzzy Information and Engineering 2010: Volume I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bignami, G. F., and Sommariva, A. (2013). Financing of Space Exploration and ColonizationIn A. Sommariva (Ed.), A Scenario for Interstellar Exploration and Its Financing (pp. 61–79). Milano: 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 Small Business Management.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2016, October 20). Giant Dinosaurs’ Arrival In Australia Suggests A Period Of Antarctic Warming. Retrieved 30 October 2018, from IFLScience website: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/giant-dinosaurs-arrival-in-australia-suggests-a-period-of-antarctic-warming/

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. (2014). Public Transit: Length of Development Process, Cost Estimates, and Ridership Forecasts for Capital-Investment Grant Projects (No. GAO-14-472). 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

Holloway, C. M. (2015). Evaluating Five Leadership Traits in the Rising Stars Succession Planning Program (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Slotnik, D. E. (2017, May 2). “Kenny Sears, 83, Sharpshooting Forward for the Knicks,” New York Times, p. A28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dawkins, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Dawkins, 2010; Hossfeld and Olsson, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Hossfeld and Olsson, 2002)
Three authors: (Jiang, Kirmizialtin, and Sanchez, 2014)
6 or more authors: (Bessereau et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Small Business Management
ISSN (print)	0047-2778
ISSN (online)	1540-627X
Scope