How to format your references using the Enterprise Information Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Enterprise Information Systems. 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

Ward-Thompson, Derek. 2002. “Isolated Star Formation: From Cloud Formation to Core Collapse.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 295 (5552): 76–81.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, Yao, and Julie K. Pfeiffer. 2014. “Microbiology: A Backup for Bacteria.” Nature 516 (7529): 42–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bragg, Arthur E., Molly C. Cavanagh, and Benjamin J. Schwartz. 2008. “Linear Response Breakdown in Solvation Dynamics Induced by Atomic Electron-Transfer Reactions.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 321 (5897): 1817–1822.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Tatem, Andrew J., Carlos A. Guerra, Peter M. Atkinson, and Simon I. Hay. 2004. “Athletics: Momentous Sprint at the 2156 Olympics?” Nature 431 (7008): 525.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sun, Baojiang. 2016. Multiphase Flow in Oil and Gas Well Drilling. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Wenning, Gregor K., and Alessandra Fanciulli, eds. 2014. Multiple System Atrophy. Vienna: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Höfler, Heinz, Rupert Langer, Katja Ott, and Gisela Keller. 2007. “Prediction of Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Carcinomas of the Upper Gastrointestinal Tract.” In Targeted Therapies in Cancer, edited by Manfred Dietel, 33–36. Recent Results in Cancer Research. 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 Enterprise Information Systems.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2015. “Boeing Has Developed The Lightest Metal Ever.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/lightest-metal-ever-has-been-developed-boeing/.

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. 1989. High-Definition Television: Applications for This New Technology. IMTEC-90-9FS. 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

Altebarmakian, Tamar. 2012. “Salt of the Skin.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Hill, James, and Andrew E. Kramer. 2017. “No Love for Valentine’s: In Russia, Florists Bank on a Day for Women.” New York Times, March 8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ward-Thompson 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Ward-Thompson 2002; Wang and Pfeiffer 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Pfeiffer 2014)
Three authors: (Bragg, Cavanagh, and Schwartz 2008)
4 or more authors: (Tatem et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Enterprise Information Systems
Abbreviation	Enterp. Inf. Syst.
ISSN (print)	1751-7575
ISSN (online)	1751-7583
Scope	Computer Science Applications Information Systems and Management