How to format your references using the Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship citation style

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

Pain, E. (2005). The class of 2005. France: a knot mathematician, with a twist. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5747), 520.

A journal article with 2 authors

Koch, S. W., & Knorr, A. (2001). Applied physics. Optics in the nano-world. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5538), 2217–2218.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kirichok, Y., Navarro, B., & Clapham, D. E. (2006). Whole-cell patch-clamp measurements of spermatozoa reveal an alkaline-activated Ca2+ channel. Nature, 439(7077), 737–740.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kayagaki, N., Warming, S., Lamkanfi, M., Vande Walle, L., Louie, S., Dong, J., et al. (2011). Non-canonical inflammasome activation targets caspase-11. Nature, 479(7371), 117–121.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murray, A. (2015). The Complete Software Project Manager. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Reed, N., Green, J. A., Gershenson, D. M., Siddiqui, N., & Connor, R. (Eds.). (2011). Rare and Uncommon Gynecological Cancers: A Clinical Guide. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Plichta, A., Gaciarz, T., & Szomiński, S. (2013). Identification of Persons by Virtue of Hand Geometry. In K. Saeed, R. Chaki, A. Cortesi, & S. Wierzchoń (Eds.), Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management: 12th IFIP TC8 International Conference, CISIM 2013, Krakow, Poland, September 25-27, 2013. Proceedings (pp. 36–46). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017, March 8). Tiny Satellites Discover Biggest Stellar Heartbeat. 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. (1990). Air Pollution: EPA Needs More Data From FHwA on Changes to Highway Projects (No. RCED-90-72). 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

Holmes, K. (2008). Ethical practice online: An exploration of provider liability risk among practitioners in the emerging field of online therapy (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

Crow, K. (2001, August 26). Sitter Wanted: Must Supply Nuts. New York Times, p. 144.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pain 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Koch and Knorr 2001; Pain 2005).

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

Two authors: (Koch and Knorr 2001)
Three or more authors: (Kayagaki et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Abbreviation	J. Innov. Entrep..
ISSN (online)	2192-5372
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