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Business Citation Guide: Business Cases

This guide provides examples for citing business resources in APA, MLA, and Chicago citation styles.

Business Cases

Type Example
Works Cited List Citation

Author's Last Name, First Name or Corporate Author. "Title of Case." Website Name, Day Shortened Month Publication Year, URL.

Example:

Dey, Aiyesha, et al. "Why I Blew the Whistle: Mauro Botta v. PwC." Harvard Business School, 22 Jul. 2021. hbsp.harvard.edu/product/122005-PDF-ENG?Ntt=

In-Text Citation Example

(Author's Last Name Page Number)

Example:

(Dey et al. 5)

 

Type Example
Works Cited List Citation

Corporate Author. "Title of Case." Database Name, Day Abbreviated Month Publication Year, pp. Page numbers.  

Example:

MarketLine. "Uber Technologies Inc.: Calling a Cab for the Taxi Industry?" MarketLine Advantage, Nov. 2014, pp. 1-16.

In-Text Citation Example

(Corporate Author Name Page Number)

Example:

(MarketLine 10)

If using more than one case from MarketLine:

(Corporate Author Name, "Shortened Description" Page Number)

Example:

(MarketLine, "Uber Technologies" 10)

 

Type Example
Works Cited List Citation

Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article: Subtitle if Any." Name of Journal, vol. Volume Number, no. Issue Number, Date of Publication, pp. First Page Number-Last Page Number if given. Database Name, DOI or URL. 

Example:

Lewis, Mark, et al. “Highland Brewing Company: Perceptions of New Entrants.” Business Case Journal, vol. 26, no. 2, Summer 2019, pp. 25–31. EBSCOhost, search-ebscohost-com.ezproxy.library.yorku.ca/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=144602790&site=ehost-live.

In-Text Citation Example

(Author's Last Name Page Number)

Example:

(Lewis et al. 28)

 

Type Example
Works Cited List Citation

Author's Last name, First name. "Title of Chapter." Title of Book: Subtitle if Any, edited by Editor's First Name and Last Name, Edition if given and it not first, Publisher Name often shortened, Year of publication, Page numbers of the chapter. 

 

Example:

Black, Stewart, et al. "LG GROUP Developing Tomorrow's Global Leader." Cases in Leadership, editbed by W. Glenn Rowe and Laura Guerrero, Sage, 2011, pp. 48-61. 

Note 1: The author that is listed first is the author of the chapter.

Note 2: If there is no editor given you may leave out that part of the citation.

In-Text Citation Example

(Author Last Name Page Number)

Example:

(Black et al. 52)