How to format your references using the Journal of Management Information Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS). 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	Download the output style file
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

Egolf, D.A. Statistical mechanics. Far from equilibrium. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296, 5574 (June 2002), 1813–1815.

A journal article with 2 authors

Philpotts, A.R. and Dickson, L.D. The formation of plagioclase chains during convective transfer in basaltic magma. Nature, 406, 6791 (July 2000), 59–61.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ju, S.-Y., Kopcha, W.P., and Papadimitrakopoulos, F. Brightly fluorescent single-walled carbon nanotubes via an oxygen-excluding surfactant organization. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323, 5919 (March 2009), 1319–1323.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Krainer, F.W., Gmeiner, C., Neutsch, L., et al. Knockout of an endogenous mannosyltransferase increases the homogeneity of glycoproteins produced in Pichia pastoris. Scientific reports, 3, (November 2013), 3279.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gustafsson, F. Adaptive Filtering and Change Detection. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2001.

An edited book

Lederman, R. Psychosocial Adaptation to Pregnancy: Seven Dimensions of Maternal Role Development. Springer, New York, NY, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Frieden, B.R. and Soffer, B.H. Parallel Information Phenomena of Biology and Astrophysics. In B.R. Frieden and R.A. Gatenby, eds., Exploratory Data Analysis Using Fisher Information. Springer, London, 2007, pp. 155–180.

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 Management Information Systems.

Blog post

Fang, J. Chimps “Talk” to Each Other About Their Favorite Fruit Trees. IFLScience, 2015.

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. Aviation Safety: FAA Has An Opportunity to Enhance Safety and Improve Oversight of Initial Pilot Training. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Thomas, E.M. Perceptions of educational leaders’ efficacy and leadership capacity upon preliminary administrative credential completion at California State University, Long Beach. 2016.

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

Barnes, B. and Abrams, R. Beleaguered Weinstein Company Will Not Get a Planned Cash Infusion. New York Times, 2017, B2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2,4].
This sentence cites four references [2,6,7,8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Management Information Systems
Abbreviation	J. Manag. Inf. Syst.
ISSN (print)	0742-1222
ISSN (online)	1557-928X
Scope	Management Information Systems Computer Science Applications Information Systems and Management Management Science and Operations Research