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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Chipman A (2007) Swiss on a roll. Nature 448:525
A journal article with 2 authors
Bullock SL, Ish-Horowicz D (2001) Conserved signals and machinery for RNA transport in Drosophila oogenesis and embryogenesis. Nature 414:611–616
A journal article with 3 authors
Zwerger M, Briegel HJ, Dür W (2014) Hybrid architecture for encoded measurement-based quantum computation. Sci Rep 4:5364
A journal article with 5 or more authors
Sugden A, Ash C, Hanson B, Zahn L (2009) Happy birthday, Mr. Darwin. Introduction. Science 323:727

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Christophers B (2013) Banking Across Boundaries. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford
An edited book
Poluektova LY, Garcia JV, Koyanagi Y, et al (eds) (2014) Humanized Mice for HIV Research. Springer, New York, NY
A chapter in an edited book
Playán E, Lecina S, Isidoro D, et al (2013) Living with Drought in the Irrigated Agriculture of the Ebro Basin (Spain): Structural and Water Management Actions. In: Schwabe K, Albiac J, Connor JD, et al. (eds) Drought in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions: A Multi-Disciplinary and Cross-Country Perspective. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 63–80

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
Hamilton K (2017) Do You Really Choose What You Eat – Or Do Your Gut Microbes Decide For You? 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 (2012) Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education: Strategic Planning Needed to Better Manage Overlapping Programs across Multiple Agencies. 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
Tuschall A (2017) Exploration of the Relationship Between Implicit Theory of Intelligence and Employability. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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
Leland J (2017) Roz Chast Is New Yorkier Than You. New York Times MB1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chipman 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Bullock and Ish-Horowicz 2001; Chipman 2007).

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

  • Two authors: (Bullock and Ish-Horowicz 2001)
  • Three or more authors: (Sugden et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of International Entrepreneurship
AbbreviationJ. Int. Entrep..
ISSN (print)1570-7385
ISSN (online)1573-7349
ScopeBusiness, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)

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