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

Lichtenthaler, S. F. (2012). Cell biology. Sheddase gets guidance. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6065), 179–180.

A journal article with 2 authors

Medina-Elizalde, M., & Lea, D. W. (2005). The mid-Pleistocene transition in the tropical Pacific. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5750), 1009–1012.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin, J., Balabin, I. A., & Beratan, D. N. (2005). The nature of aqueous tunneling pathways between electron-transfer proteins. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5752), 1311–1313.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Smith, S. D., Huxman, T. E., Zitzer, S. F., Charlet, T. N., Housman, D. C., Coleman, J. S., et al. (2000). Elevated CO2 increases productivity and invasive species success in an arid ecosystem. Nature, 408(6808), 79–82.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sinzinger, S., & Jahns, J. (2005). Microoptics. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Zaphiris, P., & Ioannou, A. (Eds.). (2014). Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Designing and Developing Novel Learning Experiences: First International Conference, LCT 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014, Proceedings, Part I (Vol. 8523). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Wermers, R. A., & Grebe, S. K. (2016). Parathyroid Hormone Measurement Considerations in Primary Hyperparathyroidism. In A. E. Kearns & R. A. Wermers (Eds.), Hyperparathyroidism: A Clinical Casebook (pp. 37–45). 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 Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, October 28). New Medical Material Uses Snake Venom To Stem Bleeding. 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. (1988). [Comments on Protection of Pricing Information Under GSA Procurement for Telecommunications Services] (No. B-231156). 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

Sommer, A. (2017). How Experiences Influence and Inform School Principals’ Actions to Further Develop Teachers’ Instructional Practice (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2008, April 16). Putin to Take Helm of Party After Leaving The Presidency. New York Times, p. A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lichtenthaler 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Lichtenthaler 2012; Medina-Elizalde and Lea 2005).

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

Two authors: (Medina-Elizalde and Lea 2005)
Three or more authors: (Smith et al. 2000)

About the journal

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