How to format your references using the Information Systems and e-Business Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Information Systems and e-Business Management. 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

Sharkey N (2008) Computer science. The ethical frontiers of robotics. Science 322:1800–1801

A journal article with 2 authors

Mercer JM, Roth VL (2003) The effects of Cenozoic global change on squirrel phylogeny. Science 299:1568–1572

A journal article with 3 authors

Luo J, Shen L, Zheng D (2014) Association between vitamin C intake and lung cancer: a dose-response meta-analysis. Sci Rep 4:6161

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Waterhouse GIN, Wahab AK, Al-Oufi M, et al (2013) Hydrogen production by tuning the photonic band gap with the electronic band gap of TiO₂. Sci Rep 3:2849

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dehn MJ (2010) Long-Term Memory Problems in Children and Adolescents. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Aspinall D, Camenisch J, Hansen M, et al (eds) (2016) Privacy and Identity Management. Time for a Revolution?: 10th IFIP WG 9.2, 9.5, 9.6/11.7, 11.4, 11.6/SIG 9.2.2 International Summer School, Edinburgh, UK, August 16-21, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Bayazitoglu Y, Kakaç S (2005) Flow Regimes in Microchannel Single-Phase Gaseous Fluid Flow. In: Kakaç S, Vasiliev LL, Bayazitoğlu Y, Yener Y (eds) Microscale Heat Transfer Fundamentals and Applications: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Microscale Heat Transfer — Fundamentals and Applications in Biological and Microelectromechanical Systems Cesme-Izmir, Turkey 18–30 July 2004. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 75–92

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 Information Systems and e-Business Management.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2016) Full “Rebirth” Of A Star Observed For The First Time. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1991) Global Positioning System: Production Should Be Limited Until Receiver Reliability Problems Are Resolved. 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

Moreno S (2009) Mother-child relationships: Females behind bars and their children. 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

Nir SM (2015) Behind Perfect Nails, Ailing Salon Workers. 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 (Sharkey 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Mercer and Roth 2003; Sharkey 2008).

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

Two authors: (Mercer and Roth 2003)
Three or more authors: (Waterhouse et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Information Systems and e-Business Management
ISSN (print)	1617-9846
ISSN (online)	1617-9854
Scope	Information Systems