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

Wright J (2014) Nanotechnology: Deliver on a promise. Nature 509:S58-9

A journal article with 2 authors

Oki T, Kanae S (2006) Global hydrological cycles and world water resources. Science 313:1068–1072

A journal article with 3 authors

Martin A, Baker TA, Sauer RT (2005) Rebuilt AAA + motors reveal operating principles for ATP-fuelled machines. Nature 437:1115–1120

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kaur G, Pickrell G, Kimsawatde G, et al (2014) Synthesis, cytotoxicity, and hydroxyapatite formation in 27-Tris-SBF for sol-gel based CaO-P2O5-SiO2-B2O3-ZnO bioactive glasses. Sci Rep 4:4392

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deichmann U (2005) Flüchten, Mitmachen, Vergessen. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Cho WCS (ed) (2010) Supportive Cancer Care with Chinese Medicine. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Ooi CC, Schindelhauer C (2009) Energy-Efficient Distributed Target Tracking Using Wireless Relay Robots. In: Asama H, Kurokawa H, Ota J, Sekiyama K (eds) Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 39–50

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

Hale T (2016) Venomous Lionfish Are Taking Over The Mediterranean. 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 (1993) [FAA Employees’ Use of Government Vehicles for After-Hours Transportation]. 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

Herrlich A (2010) Transparency and medical interventions in vital statistics reports: Quantitative research and analysis. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Mcbride M, Blackmon T, Reid F, Skinner BW (2017) Don’t Wait For a Perfect Protest. New York Times A19

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wright 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Oki and Kanae 2006; Wright 2014).

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

Two authors: (Oki and Kanae 2006)
Three or more authors: (Kaur et al. 2014)

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)