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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Strategic Information Systems. 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

Scanlon, J.D., 2006. Skull of the large non-macrostomatan snake Yurlunggur from the Australian Oligo-Miocene. Nature 439, 839–842.

A journal article with 2 authors

van Der Merwe, P.A., Davis, S.J., 2002. Immunology. The immunological synapse--a multitasking system. Science 295, 1479–1480.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kartal, B., Kuenen, J.G., van Loosdrecht, M.C.M., 2010. Engineering. Sewage treatment with anammox. Science 328, 702–703.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Contractor, A., Rogers, C., Maron, C., Henkemeyer, M., Swanson, G.T., Heinemann, S.F., 2002. Trans-synaptic Eph receptor-ephrin signaling in hippocampal mossy fiber LTP. Science 296, 1864–1869.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pohanish, R.P., 2005. HazMat Data. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Klieman, A. (Ed.), 2015. Great Powers and Geopolitics: International Affairs in a Rebalancing World, Global Power Shift, Comparative Analysis and Perspectives. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Provenzano, D.A., 2016. Perioperative Precautions for Infection Control, in: Deer, T.R., Pope, J.E. (Eds.), Atlas of Implantable Therapies for Pain Management. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 23–26.

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 Strategic Information Systems.

Blog post

Evans, K., 2016. Most Vitamins Are Useless, But There’s One You Could Probably Use [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/most-vitamins-are-useless-but-theres-one-you-could-probably-use/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1999. Reported Year 2000 (Y2K) Readiness Status of 25 Large School Districts (No. AIMD-99-296R). 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

Sheppard, K.C., 2017. An Examination of School Choice Access, Opportunities, and Academic Outcomes in an Intra-District School Choice Program (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

(nyt), S.K., 2003. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Hearing On Media Curbs. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Scanlon, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Scanlon, 2006; van Der Merwe and Davis, 2002).

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

Two authors: (van Der Merwe and Davis, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Contractor et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Abbreviation	J. Strat. Inf. Syst.
ISSN (print)	0963-8687
Scope	Management Information Systems Information Systems Information Systems and Management