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

Goldin DS (2000) Contributions to the u.s. Space program. Science 288:2131c

A journal article with 2 authors

Taylor RC, Ryan MJ (2013) Interactions of multisensory components perceptually rescue túngara frog mating signals. Science 341:273–274

A journal article with 3 authors

Gray-Schopfer V, Wellbrock C, Marais R (2007) Melanoma biology and new targeted therapy. Nature 445:851–857

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sun Q-Q, Wang L-H, Yang W, et al (2013) Atomic scale investigation of a graphene nano-ribbon based high efficiency spin valve. Sci Rep 3:2921

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kuehni RG (2004) Color. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Zereini F, Hötzl H (eds) (2008) Climatic Changes and Water Resources in the Middle East and North Africa. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Veiga LG, Kurian M (2015) Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: Questions of Accountability and Autonomy. In: Kurian M, Ardakanian R (eds) Governing the Nexus: Water, Soil and Waste Resources Considering Global Change. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 63–81

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

Andrew E (2015) Vitamin Pills Could Increase Cancer Risk. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/vitamin-pills-could-be-increasing-cancer-risk/. 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 (1994) Aviation Safety: FAA’s Assessment of Pre-flight Service Technology Options. 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

Wheeler TJ (2009) Efficient construction of accurate multiple alignments and large-scale phylogenies. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Oestreich JR (2017) Seeking Strength in Numbers. New York Times C2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldin 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Goldin 2000; Taylor and Ryan 2013).

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

Two authors: (Taylor and Ryan 2013)
Three or more authors: (Sun 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)