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

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

McNally, E. M. (2012). Genetics: broken giant linked to heart failure. Nature, 483(7389), 281–282.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee, A. L., & Wand, A. J. (2001). Microscopic origins of entropy, heat capacity and the glass transition in proteins. Nature, 411(6836), 501–504.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ciosk, R., DePalma, M., & Priess, J. R. (2006). Translational regulators maintain totipotency in the Caenorhabditis elegans germline. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5762), 851–853.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Dinh, C.-T., Burdyny, T., Kibria, M. G., Seifitokaldani, A., Gabardo, C. M., García de Arquer, F. P., … Sargent, E. H. (2018). CO2 electroreduction to ethylene via hydroxide-mediated copper catalysis at an abrupt interface. Science (New York, N.Y.), 360(6390), 783–787.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ratliff, T. A. (2005). The Laboratory Quality Assurance System. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Agha, K. A., Guérin Lassous, I., & Pujolle, G. (Eds.). (2006). Challenges in Ad Hoc Networking: Fourth Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop, June 21–24, 2005, Île de Porquerolles, France (Vol. 197). Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Lanzarone, E., & Carello, G. (2014). Applying the Cardinality–Constrained Approach in Health Care Systems: The Home Care Example. In A. Matta, J. Li, E. Sahin, E. Lanzarone, & J. Fowler (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Care Systems Engineering (pp. 61–72). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 the Association for Information Systems.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, August 26). Police Use DNA To Create “Sketch” Of Suspected Murderer. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (1997). Education Programs: Information on Major Preschool, Elementary, and Secondary Education Programs (No. HEHS-97-210R). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bishop, S. (2015). The impact of attachment and social support on parents of children with autism (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Koblin, J. (2016, October 18). After Negotiations With NBC, Billy Bush Is Officially Off ‘Today.’ New York Times, p. A13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McNally, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Lee & Wand, 2001; McNally, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Lee & Wand, 2001)
Three authors: (Ciosk, DePalma, & Priess, 2006)
6 or more authors: (Dinh et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Association for Information Systems
ISSN (print)	1536-9323
Scope	Computer Science Applications Information Systems