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

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

Kirshner RP (2014) Astrophysics: Supernova seen through γ-ray eyes. Nature 512:375–376

A journal article with 2 authors

Nadeau RM, Guilhem A (2009) Nonvolcanic tremor evolution and the San Simeon and Parkfield, California, earthquakes. Science 325:191–193

A journal article with 3 authors

Gardner TS, Cantor CR, Collins JJ (2000) Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli. Nature 403:339–342

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lin G, Baraban L, Han L, et al (2013) Magnetoresistive emulsion analyzer. Sci Rep 3:2548

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Costa F, Gautier C, Labouré E, Revol B (2013) Electromagnetic Compatibility in Power Electronics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Lenz H-J, Wilrich P-T (eds) (2006) Frontiers in Statistical Quality Control 8. Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Hassine J, Hamou-Lhadj A (2014) Toward a UCM-Based Approach for Recovering System Availability Requirements from Execution Traces. In: Amyot D, Fonseca i Casas P, Mussbacher G (eds) System Analysis and Modeling: Models and Reusability: 8th International Conference, SAM 2014, Valencia, Spain, September 29-30, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 48–63

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 International Entrepreneurship.

Blog post

Luntz S (2014) New Study Suggests The World Is On The Brink Of The Next Great Extinction. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2000) Bureau of Indian Affairs: Use of Highway Trust Fund Resources. 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

Wheat BR (2015) Effects of intercropping switchgrass in managed pine stands on plant communities and white-tailed deer forage production. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University

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

Gordon M (2012) Blessed Among Women. New York Times BR14

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kirshner 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Nadeau and Guilhem 2009; Kirshner 2014).

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

Two authors: (Nadeau and Guilhem 2009)
Three or more authors: (Lin et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of International Entrepreneurship
Abbreviation	J. Int. Entrep..
ISSN (print)	1570-7385
ISSN (online)	1573-7349
Scope	Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)