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

Smaglik, Paul. 2005. “Bricks and Mortar. Scottish Structural Proteomics Facility, University of St Andrews, UK.” Nature 433 (7026): 666.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shafiq, Ghufran, and Kalyana C. Veluvolu. 2014. “Surface Chest Motion Decomposition for Cardiovascular Monitoring.” Scientific Reports 4 (May): 5093.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fu, Yangyang, Yadong Xu, and Huanyang Chen. 2014. “Additional Modes in a Waveguide System of Zero-Index-Metamaterials with Defects.” Scientific Reports 4 (September): 6428.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Karhadkar, Sunil S., G. Steven Bova, Nadia Abdallah, Surajit Dhara, Dale Gardner, Anirban Maitra, John T. Isaacs, David M. Berman, and Philip A. Beachy. 2004. “Hedgehog Signalling in Prostate Regeneration, Neoplasia and Metastasis.” Nature 431 (7009): 707–712.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Memming, Rüdiger. 2015. Semiconductor Electrochemistry. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Kotlarsky, Julia, Leslie P. Willcocks, and Ilan Oshri, eds. 2011. New Studies in Global IT and Business Service Outsourcing: 5th Global Scourcing Workshop 2011, Courchevel, France, March 14-17, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 91. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Yoshida, Eiichi, Claudia Esteves, Oussama Kanoun, Mathieu Poirier, Anthony Mallet, Jean-Paul Laumond, and Kazuhito Yokoi. 2010. “Planning Whole-Body Humanoid Locomotion, Reaching, and Manipulation.” In Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots, edited by Kensuke Harada, Eiichi Yoshida, and Kazuhito Yokoi, 99–128. London: 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

Andrews, Robin. 2017. “Babies Have An Innate Sense Of Heroic Justice.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/babies-innate-sense-heroic-justice/.

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. 1997. Army Aviation and Troop Command. NSIAD-97-142R. 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

Barrios, Guadalupe. 2012. “Outreach Program to Address the Unmet Needs of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom Veterans: A Grant Proposal.” 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

Hollander, Sophia. 2000. “Late Comeback Falls Short, And Liberty Loses to Shock.” New York Times, June 22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2005; Shafiq and Veluvolu 2014).

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

Two authors: (Shafiq and Veluvolu 2014)
Three authors: (Fu, Xu, and Chen 2014)
4 or more authors: (Karhadkar 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