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

Hublin, J.-J. (2014) Anthropology. How to build a Neandertal Science (New York, N.Y.), 344, 1338–1339.

A journal article with 2 authors

Van de Walle, C. G. & Neugebauer, J. (2003) Universal alignment of hydrogen levels in semiconductors, insulators and solutions Nature, 423, 626–628.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jia, H., Liggins, J. R., & Chow, W. S. (2014) Entropy and biological systems: experimentally-investigated entropy-driven stacking of plant photosynthetic membranes Scientific Reports, 4, 4142.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Periana, R. A., Mironov, O., Taube, D., Bhalla, G., & Jones, C. J. (2003) Catalytic, oxidative condensation of CH4 to CH3COOH in one step via CH activation Science (New York, N.Y.), 301, 814–818.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lieser, K. H. (2007) Nuclear and Radiochemistry: Fundamentals and Applications. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Klaesson, J., Johansson, B., & Karlsson, C. (2013) Metropolitan Regions: Knowledge Infrastructures of the Global Economy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Crabtree, A., Rouncefield, M., & Tolmie, P. (2012) Finding the Animal in the Foliage In: Doing Design Ethnography, M. Rouncefield & P. Tolmie (eds.) pp. 43–66. Springer, London.

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

Andrew, D. (2014, December 18) Masters of Disguise: Top 25 Camouflaged Animals. Retrieved 30 October 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/masters-disguise-top-25-camouflaged-animals/

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 (2001) Social Security Administration: Information Systems Could Improve Processing Attorney Fee Payments in Disability Program (No. GAO-01-796). 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

Lummus, S. (2010) Perceptions of required leadership behaviors for nurse leaders as measured by the Leadership Practices Inventory (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Detrick, B. (2017, May 23) Busy P Surveys the Paris Party Scene He Defined New York Times, p. D6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hublin, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Hublin, 2014; Van de Walle & Neugebauer, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Van de Walle & Neugebauer, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Periana and others, 2003)

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