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

Collins FS (2008) Retrospective: Victor A. McKusick (1921-2008). Science 321:925

A journal article with 2 authors

Velicer GJ, Yu Y-TN (2003) Evolution of novel cooperative swarming in the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. Nature 425:75–78

A journal article with 3 authors

Reyners M, Eberhart-Phillips D, Stuart G (2007) The role of fluids in lower-crustal earthquakes near continental rifts. Nature 446:1075–1078

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hart DO, Raha T, Lawson ND, Green MR (2007) Initiation of zebrafish haematopoiesis by the TATA-box-binding protein-related factor Trf3. Nature 450:1082–1085

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blumberg LM (2010) Temperature-Programmed Gas Chromatography. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Silhavy R, Senkerik R, Oplatkova ZK, et al (eds) (2015) Artificial Intelligence Perspectives and Applications: Proceedings of the 4th Computer Science On-line Conference 2015 (CSOC2015), Vol 1: Artificial Intelligence Perspectives and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Nowicki K, Malinowski A, Sikorski M (2016) More Just Measure of Fairness for Sharing Network Resources. In: Gaj P, Kwiecień A, Stera P (eds) Computer Networks: 23rd International Conference, CN 2016, Brunów, Poland, June 14-17, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 52–58

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

Andrew E (2014) Meteor-like Object Explodes Over Russia. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/meteor-object-explodes-over-russia/. 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 (2010) Aviation Security: TSA Is Increasing Procurement and Deployment of the Advanced Imaging Technology, but Challenges to This Effort and Other Areas of Aviation Security Remain. 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

Sheah J (2015) Reading Dreams: Representation of Dreams Through Artists’ Books. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Lee L (2013) Bring On The Wind And Water. New York Times D2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Collins 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Velicer and Yu 2003; Collins 2008).

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

Two authors: (Velicer and Yu 2003)
Three or more authors: (Hart et al. 2007)

About the journal

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