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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Information Systems Research. 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

Squire LR (2007) Neuroscience. Rapid consolidation. Science 316(5821):57–58.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wei HR, Deng FG (2014) Scalable quantum computing based on stationary spin qubits in coupled quantum dots inside double-sided optical microcavities. Sci. Rep. 4:7551.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schall JD, Paré M, Woodman GF (2007) Comment on “Top-down versus bottom-up control of attention in the prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices.” Science 318(5847):44; author reply 44.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Villanueva-Gutiérrez R, Echazarreta-González C, Roubik DW, Moguel-Ordóñez YB (2014) Transgenic soybean pollen (Glycine max L.) in honey from the Yucatán peninsula, Mexico. Sci. Rep. 4:4022.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shahidi A (2014) Balanced Asset Allocation (John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ).

An edited book

Dudin A, Klimenok V, Tsarenkov G, Dudin S eds. (2013) Modern Probabilistic Methods for Analysis of Telecommunication Networks: Belarusian Winter Workshops in Queueing Theory, BWWQT 2013, Minsk, Belarus, January 28-31, 2013. Proceedings (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg).

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang H, Dong X, Cao Z, Shen J (2015) 4P_VES: A Collusion-Resistant Accountable Virtual Economy System. Hui LCK, Qing SH, Shi E, Yiu SM, eds. Information and Communications Security: 16th International Conference, ICICS 2014, Hong Kong, China, December 16-17, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. (Springer International Publishing, Cham), 61–73.

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 Research.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Scientists Grow New Blood Vessels In Just 7 Days. IFLScience. Retrieved (October 30, 2018), https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-grow-new-blood-vessels-just-7-days/.

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 (1998) Aviation Safety: FAA’s Use of Emergency Orders to Revoke or Suspend Operating Certificates (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

Nelson T (2017) Project Motherhood: 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

Sisario B (2017) How Did It Feel to Be on Their Own? New York Times (October 27).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Squire 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Squire 2007, Wei and Deng 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wei and Deng 2014)
Three or more authors: (Villanueva-Gutiérrez et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Information Systems Research
Abbreviation	Inf. Syst. Res.
ISSN (print)	1047-7047
ISSN (online)	1526-5536
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Information Systems Information Systems and Management Library and Information Sciences