How to format your references using the Electronic Commerce Research and Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Electronic Commerce Research and Applications. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Amin, M., 2013. Energy: The smart-grid solution. Nature 499, 145–147.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kruse, E., Agol, E., 2014. KOI-3278: a self-lensing binary star system. Science 344, 275–277.

A journal article with 3 authors

Joughin, I., Abdalati, W., Fahnestock, M., 2004. Large fluctuations in speed on Greenland’s Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier. Nature 432, 608–610.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kent, S.C., Chen, Y., Bregoli, L., Clemmings, S.M., Kenyon, N.S., Ricordi, C., Hering, B.J., Hafler, D.A., 2005. Expanded T cells from pancreatic lymph nodes of type 1 diabetic subjects recognize an insulin epitope. Nature 435, 224–228.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gwynne, A., 2013. Guide to Building Control. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Cho, S.J. (Ed.), 2015. The Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Mathematical Education: Intellectual and attitudinal challenges. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Daugstad, K., 2011. The Participatory Dimension in Nature Conservation Processes: Examples of Ideology and Practice from Norway, in: Jones, M., Stenseke, M. (Eds.), The European Landscape Convention: Challenges of Participation, Landscape Series. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 67–79.

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 Electronic Commerce Research and Applications.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. 10 Parasites That Could Be Making Your Body Their Home [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/these-10-parasites-may-be-making-your-body-their-home/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1979. Overpayment of Title I Funds at the Richmond City Public School System During FY 1978 (No. 108614). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Williams-Newball, T.I., 2014. Domain, Community and Practice: An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship Between Communities of Practice and Professional Identity Among Veterinarians (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

Gustines, G.G., 2011. More Than Just Comic Books, But Plenty of Those, Too. New York Times C32.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Amin, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Amin, 2013; Kruse and Agol, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kruse and Agol, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Kent et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Abbreviation	Electron. Commer. Res. Appl.
ISSN (print)	1567-4223
Scope	Management of Technology and Innovation Marketing Computer Networks and Communications Computer Science Applications