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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Information Systems Journal (ISJ). 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

Dickson, D. (2002) Anil Agarwal (1947-2002) Nature, 415, 384.

A journal article with 2 authors

Frohlich, M. W. & Chase, M. W. (2007) After a dozen years of progress the origin of angiosperms is still a great mystery Nature, 450, 1184–1189.

A journal article with 3 authors

Swan, A., Cockerill, M., & Sipp, D. (2013) Advocacy: How to hasten open access Nature, 495, 442–443.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Deslys, J. P., Comoy, E., Hawkins, S., … Moynagh, J. (2001) Screening slaughtered cattle for BSE Nature, 409, 476–478.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jakubith, M. (1998) Grundoperationen und chemische Reaktionstechnik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Ramady, M. A. (2016) The Political Economy of Wasta: Use and Abuse of Social Capital Networking 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Bari, A. T. M. G., Reaz, M. R., Choi, H.-J., & Jeong, B.-S. (2013) DNA Encoding for Splice Site Prediction in Large DNA Sequence In: Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 18th International Conference, DASFAA 2013, International Workshops: BDMA, SNSM, SeCoP, Wuhan, China, April 22-25, 2013. Proceedings, B. Hong, X. Meng, L. Chen, W. Winiwarter, & W. Song (eds.) pp. 46–58. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Journal.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2017, January 3) World’s Oldest Known Orca Feared Dead. Retrieved 30 October 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/worlds-oldest-known-orca-feared-dead/

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) Aviation Weather: FAA Needs to Resolve Questions Involving the Use of New Radars (No. RCED-90-17). Washington, DC: 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

LeBlanc, L. (2009) Group home placement for children with serious emotional disturbance: A grant proposal project (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Billard, M. (2013, November 28) Leaving the High Life New York Times, p. E1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dickson, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Dickson, 2002; Frohlich & Chase, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Frohlich & Chase, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Deslys and others, 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Information Systems Journal
Abbreviation	Inf. Syst. J.
ISSN (print)	1350-1917
ISSN (online)	1365-2575
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Information Systems Software