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

Bernstein, Rachel. 2015. “From War to Science Paradise.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 348 (6234): 602.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gruenheid, Samantha, and B. Brett Finlay. 2003. “Microbial Pathogenesis and Cytoskeletal Function.” Nature 422 (6933): 775–781.

A journal article with 3 authors

Phillips, Nicole R., Marc L. Sprouse, and Rhonda K. Roby. 2014. “Simultaneous Quantification of Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number and Deletion Ratio: A Multiplex Real-Time PCR Assay.” Scientific Reports 4 (January): 3887.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hartogh, Paul, Dariusz C. Lis, Dominique Bockelée-Morvan, Miguel de Val-Borro, Nicolas Biver, Michael Küppers, Martin Emprechtinger, et al. 2011. “Ocean-like Water in the Jupiter-Family Comet 103P/Hartley 2.” Nature 478 (7368): 218–220.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Segura, Jaume, and Charles F. Hawkins. 2005. CMOS Electronics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Leung, Tim. 2012. Pro Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Development. Edited by Yann Duran. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Benesty, Jacob, Jingdong Chen, and Emanuël A. P. Habets. 2012. “Multichannel Speech Enhancement with Gains.” In Speech Enhancement in the STFT Domain, edited by Jingdong Chen and Emanuël A. P. Habets, 51–75. 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

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Retraction Of Scientific Papers For Fraud Or Bias Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/retraction-scientific-papers-fraud-or-bias-just-tip-iceberg/.

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. 2007. Hospital Quality Data: HHS Should Specify Steps and Time Frame for Using Information Technology to Collect and Submit Data. GAO-07-320. 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

Pugh, Allison N. 2010. “Adoption Is an Option: A Personal Narrative.” 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

Walsh, Mary Williams. 2011. “Peter Mullen, Power at a Leading Law Firm, Dies at 83.” New York Times, October 19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bernstein 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bernstein 2015; Gruenheid and Finlay 2003).

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

Two authors: (Gruenheid and Finlay 2003)
Three authors: (Phillips, Sprouse, and Roby 2014)
4 or more authors: (Hartogh et al. 2011)

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