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

Ransohoff DF (2003) Cancer. Developing molecular biomarkers for cancer. Science 299:1679–1680

A journal article with 2 authors

Arenkiel BR, Ehlers MD (2009) Molecular genetics and imaging technologies for circuit-based neuroanatomy. Nature 461:900–907

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang B, Xu S, Wu L (2012) Intensified Arabian Sea tropical storms. Nature 489:E1-2; discussion E2-3

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kowalewski M, Hoffmeister AP, Baumiller TK, Bambach RK (2005) Secondary evolutionary escalation between brachiopods and enemies of other prey. Science 308:1774–1777

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ng R (2005) Drugs. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Król D, Madeyski L, Nguyen NT (eds) (2016) Recent Developments in Intelligent Information and Database Systems, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Kozlov MV, Zvereva EL (2007) Industrial barrens: extreme habitats created by non-ferrous metallurgy. In: Amils R, Ellis-Evans C, Hinghofer-Szalkay H (eds) Life in Extreme Environments. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 69–97

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

Hale T (2017) This Could Be This First Female With “Tree Man Syndrome.” In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/this-could-be-this-first-female-with-tree-man-syndrome/. 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 (1987) Reports Issued in August 1987. 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

Zoino JJ (2017) Field Methods, Sampling Strategies, Historical Documents, and Data Redundancy: A Study of Historic Tenant Farmsteads in Leflore County, Mississippi. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State 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

Hollander S (2002) Staten Island Wins Championship of Class A League Again. New York Times D3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ransohoff 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Ransohoff 2003; Arenkiel and Ehlers 2009).

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

Two authors: (Arenkiel and Ehlers 2009)
Three or more authors: (Kowalewski et al. 2005)

About the journal

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