How to format your references using the European Journal of Information Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS). 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

BUAT V (2015) Astrophysics: Dust-poor galaxies at early times. Nature 522(7557), 422–423.

A journal article with 2 authors

SPRINZAK D and ELOWITZ MB (2005) Reconstruction of genetic circuits. Nature 438(7067), 443–448.

A journal article with 3 authors

KIM S-Y, HAKOSHIMA T and KITANO K (2013) Structure of the RecQ C-terminal domain of human Bloom syndrome protein. Scientific reports 3, 3294.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

ENGELMANN J, HANKE W, MOGDANS J and BLECKMANN H (2000) Hydrodynamic stimuli and the fish lateral line. Nature 408(6808), 51–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

DEXTER AL (2012) Monitoring and Control of Information-Poor Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

KLINK M (ed) (2014) Interaction of Immune and Cancer Cells. Springer, Vienna.

A chapter in an edited book

SHARMA D, SAHARAN BS and KAPIL S (2016) Substrates and Production of Biosurfactants. In Biosurfactants of Lactic Acid Bacteria (Saharan BS & Kapil S, Eds), SpringerBriefs in Microbiology. pp 61–72, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 European Journal of Information Systems.

Blog post

ANDREW E (2015) Lemurs May Hold Secrets To Living Longer, But They Won’t Increase Our Lifespan. [Online] Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/lemurs-may-hold-secrets-living-longer-they-won-t-increase-our-lifespan/ (accessed 30/10/18).

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) Truck Safety: Implementation of the Single Driver’s License and Notification Requirements. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

HARVEY SL (2012) From ‘The Man With the Hoe’ to ‘Tobacco Road’: Class, Poverty and Religion and the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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 S (2002) National Titles Go to Wealing And Lindquist. New York Times, D6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buat, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Sprinzak & Elowitz, 2005; Buat, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Sprinzak & Elowitz, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Engelmann et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Information Systems
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Inf. Syst.
ISSN (print)	0960-085X
ISSN (online)	1476-9344
Scope	Information Systems Library and Information Sciences