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

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

Zhang, L. (2015). China must act decisively to eradicate the ivory trade. Nature, 527(7577), 135.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marotzke, J., & Forster, P. M. (2015). Forcing, feedback and internal variability in global temperature trends. Nature, 517(7536), 565–570.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sokolov, S., Scheuer, T., & Catterall, W. A. (2007). Gating pore current in an inherited ion channelopathy. Nature, 446(7131), 76–78.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Guo, R., Mao, J., Xie, X.-M., & Yan, L.-T. (2014). Predictive supracolloidal helices from patchy particles. Scientific Reports, 4, 7021.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carrasco, R. A., & Johnston, M. (2008). Non-Binary Error Control Coding for Wireless Communication and Data Storage. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Käufl, H. U., Siebenmorgen, R., & Moorwood, A. F. M. (Eds.). (2005). High Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy in Astronomy: Proceedings of an ESO Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 18-21 November 2003. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Simón Mata, A., Bataller Torras, A., Cabrera Carrillo, J. A., Ezquerro Juanco, F., Guerra Fernández, A. J., Nadal Martínez, F., & Ortiz Fernández, A. (2016). Graphical and Analytical Methods for Dynamic Analysis of Planar Linkages. In A. Bataller Torras, J. A. Cabrera Carrillo, F. Ezquerro Juanco, A. J. Guerra Fernández, F. Nadal Martínez, & A. Ortiz Fernández (Eds.), Fundamentals of Machine Theory and Mechanisms (pp. 143–193). 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 World Business.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, September 8). Flashes Of Light Beyond The Solar System Could Indicate Comet Impacts On Exoplanets. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/flashes-light-beyond-solar-system-could-indicate-comet-impacts-exoplanets/

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. (2010). National Transportation Safety Board: Issues Related to the 2010 Reauthorization (GAO-10-366T). 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

Dalbey, S. B. (2017). Celebrity Endorsements and Voting Intentions: The Role of Liking and Preference for Consistency [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

Paulson, M. (2017, May 21). Albee Estate Rejects Bid to Cast Black Actor. New York Times, C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zhang, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Marotzke & Forster, 2015; Zhang, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Marotzke & Forster, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Guo et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of World Business
Abbreviation	J. World Bus.
ISSN (print)	1090-9516
Scope	Business and International Management Marketing Finance