How to format your references using the Journal of Information Technology citation style

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

Mayr, E. (2004). Happy birthday: 80 years of watching the evolutionary scenery, Science (New York, N.Y.) 305(5680): 46–47.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grant, P. R. and Grant, B. R. (2002). Unpredictable evolution in a 30-year study of Darwin’s finches, Science (New York, N.Y.) 296(5568): 707–711.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hewitt, S. C., Deroo, B. J. and Korach, K. S. (2005). Signal transduction. A new mediator for an old hormone?, Science (New York, N.Y.) 307(5715): 1572–1573.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Masip, L., Pan, J. L., Haldar, S., Penner-Hahn, J. E., DeLisa, M. P., Georgiou, G., Bardwell, J. C. A. and Collet, J.-F. (2004). An engineered pathway for the formation of protein disulfide bonds, Science (New York, N.Y.) 303(5661): 1185–1189.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beg, D., Kuhlmann, U., Davaine, L. and Braun, B. (2012). Design of Plated Structures, Berlin, Germany: Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG.

An edited book

Tan, A.-G. (Ed.). (2013). Creativity, Talent and Excellence, Singapore: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Baranzini, M. and Mirante, A. (2016). The Celebration of Oxbridge Scientists by Italian Economists and Institutions, In A. Mirante (Ed.), A Compendium of Italian Economists at Oxbridge: Contributions to the Evolution of Economic Thinking, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 193–199.

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 Journal of Information Technology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 6). 9 Awesome Things You Didn’t Know About Bill Nye The Science Guy, IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/space/10-things-you-need-know-about-bill-nye/

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. (2009). Transportation Security: Key Actions Have Been Taken to Enhance Mass Transit and Passenger Rail Security, but Opportunities Exist to Strengthen Federal Strategy and Programs (No. GAO-09-678), 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

Wester, A. M. (2013). Readers’ trust, socio-demographic, and acuity influences in citizen journalism credibility for disrupted online newspapers (Doctoral dissertation).

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

Leguizamo, J. (2017, March 21). … I Faced a Hostile Audience (Kids), New York Times, p. AR8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mayr, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Grant and Grant, 2002; Mayr, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Grant and Grant, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Masip et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Information Technology
Abbreviation	J. Inf. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0268-3962
ISSN (online)	1466-4437
Scope	Strategy and Management Information Systems Library and Information Sciences