How to format your references using the Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP). 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

Nurse, P. (2003). Systems biology: understanding cells. Nature, 424(6951), 883.

A journal article with 2 authors

Leuenberger, M. N., & Loss, D. (2001). Quantum computing in molecular magnets. Nature, 410(6830), 789–793.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cohen, S., Zhou, Z., & Greenberg, M. E. (2008). Medicine. Activating a repressor. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5880), 1172–1173.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Redl, F. X., Cho, K.-S., Murray, C. B., & O’Brien, S. (2003). Three-dimensional binary superlattices of magnetic nanocrystals and semiconductor quantum dots. Nature, 423(6943), 968–971.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Berthold, H. J., & Binnewies, M. (2005). Chemisches Grundpraktikum. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Barral, J., & Seuret, S. (Eds.). (2010). Recent Developments in Fractals and Related Fields. Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Duckham, M., Kulik, L., & Birtley, A. (2006). A Spatiotemporal Model of Strategies and Counter Strategies for Location Privacy Protection. In M. Raubal, H. J. Miller, A. U. Frank, & M. F. Goodchild (Eds.), Geographic Information Science: 4th International Conference, GIScience 2006, Münster, Germany, September 20-23, 2006. Proceedings (pp. 47–64). 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 Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, May 30). SpaceX Unveils New Dragon Capsule That Could Carry Astronauts To The ISS. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-unveils-new-dragon-capsule-could-carry-astronauts-iss/

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. (1996). Waste From School Lunches (RCED-96-128R). 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

Teater, M. R. (2009). Reentry and reintegration: A grant proposal for formerly incarcerated women [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Mueller, B. (2017, September 21). Black Detectives in New York Say Cronyism Cost Promotions. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nurse, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Leuenberger & Loss, 2001; Nurse, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Leuenberger & Loss, 2001)
Three authors: (Cohen et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Redl et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Abbreviation	Entrep.. Theory Pr.
ISSN (print)	1042-2587
ISSN (online)	1540-6520
Scope	Business and International Management Economics and Econometrics