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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Collins, James J. 2009. “Journal Club. A Bioengineer Gets Schooled by Escherichia Coli.” Nature 460 (7252): 155.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jordan, Kenneth D., and Mark A. Johnson. 2010. “Chemistry. Downsizing the Hydrated Electron’s Lair.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 329 (5987): 42–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

Song, Y. Q., S. Ryu, and P. N. Sen. 2000. “Determining Multiple Length Scales in Rocks.” Nature 406 (6792): 178–181.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Grigera, T. S., V. Martín-Mayor, G. Parisi, and P. Verrocchio. 2003. “Phonon Interpretation of the ‘boson Peak’ in Supercooled Liquids.” Nature 422 (6929): 289–292.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Graham, Lynford. 2010. Complying with Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Moroney, Laurence, and Matthew MacDonald, eds. 2006. Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in VB 2005. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Fleischer, Torsten, Jutta Jahnel, and Stefanie B. Seitz. 2014. “Technology Assessment Beyond Toxicology – The Case of Nanomaterials.” In Responsibility in Nanotechnology Development, edited by Simone Arnaldi, Arianna Ferrari, Paolo Magaudda, and Francesca Marin, 79–96. The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Luntz, Stephen. 2015. “Why Did Dinosaurs Avoid The Tropics For So Long?” IFLScience, IFLScience, June 16. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/triassic-dinosaurs-couldnt-handle-heat/.

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. 2009. NASA: Projects Need More Disciplined Oversight and Management to Address Key Challenges. GAO-09-436T. 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

Sarkar, Dipanwita. 2008. “Nanopass Compiler Infrastructure.” Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University.

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

Schwartz, John, and Alan Blinder. 2017. “Houston Faces Urgent Task: Moving Mountains of Storm Debris.” New York Times, September 6, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Collins 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Collins 2009; Jordan and Johnson 2010).

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

Two authors: (Jordan and Johnson 2010)
Three authors: (Song, Ryu, and Sen 2000)
4 or more authors: (Grigera et al. 2003)

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