How to format your references using the International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal. 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

Marx, V. (2015). The DNA of a nation. Nature, 524(7566), 503–505.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gantz, V. M., & Bier, E. (2015). Genome editing. The mutagenic chain reaction: a method for converting heterozygous to homozygous mutations. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6233), 442–444.

A journal article with 3 authors

Benton, M. J., Wills, M. A., & Hitchin, R. (2000). Quality of the fossil record through time. Nature, 403(6769), 534–537.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Boal, A. K., Ilhan, F., DeRouchey, J. E., Thurn-Albrecht, T., Russell, T. P., & Rotello, V. M. (2000). Self-assembly of nanoparticles into structured spherical and network aggregates. Nature, 404(6779), 746–748.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Akivis, M. A., & Goldberg, V. V. (1996). Conformal Differential Geometry and Its Generalizations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hershberg, E., & LeoGrande, W. M. (Eds.). (2016). A New Chapter in US-Cuba Relations: Social, Political, and Economic Implications. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Stelzer, R., & Zavišin, J. (2015). Derivative Pricing under the Possibility of Long Memory in the supOU Stochastic Volatility Model. In K. Glau, M. Scherer, & R. Zagst (Eds.), Innovations in Quantitative Risk Management: TU München, September 2013 (pp. 75–92). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2017, January 13). New Theory Could Explain Why Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold Water. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 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. (2006). Suggested Areas for Oversight for the 110th Congress (No. GAO-07-235R). 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

Beck, R. E. (2012). Examining the relationship between self-initiated expatriation and cross-cultural adjustment among expatriate spouses within nonprofit organizations: A quantitative causal-comparative study (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Casselman, B. (2017, September 20). The Start-Up Slump Is a Drag on the Economy. Maybe Big Business Is to Blame. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marx 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Gantz and Bier 2015; Marx 2015).

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

Two authors: (Gantz and Bier 2015)
Three or more authors: (Boal et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal
Abbreviation	Int. Entrep.. Manag. J.
ISSN (print)	1554-7191
ISSN (online)	1555-1938
Scope	Management Information Systems Management of Technology and Innovation