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

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

Trivedi, B. P., (2012). Gustatory system: the finer points of taste. Nature, (486:7403): S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vetter, I. R., and Wittinghofer, A., (2001). The guanine nucleotide-binding switch in three dimensions. Science (New York, N.Y.), (294:5545): 1299–1304.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mitchell, M. W., Lundeen, J. S., and Steinberg, A. M., (2004). Super-resolving phase measurements with a multiphoton entangled state. Nature, (429:6988): 161–164.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Choi, D. H., Wang, Q., Azuma, Y., Majima, Y., Warner, J. H., Miyata, Y., Shinohara, H., and Kitaura, R., (2013). Fabrication and characterization of fully flattened carbon nanotubes: a new graphene nanoribbon analogue. Scientific reports, (3): 1617.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weisberg, H. I., (2014). Willful Ignorance, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Seruya, T., and Justo, J. M., eds., (2016). Rereading Schleiermacher: Translation, Cognition and Culture, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Cervantes, F., and Hernández-Boluda, J.-C., (2011). Prognostic Factors in Classic Myeloproliferative Neoplasms. In: Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: Biology and Therapy, S. Verstovsek and A. Tefferi (eds.), Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 85–96.

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 Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems.

Blog post

Hale, T., (2015, October 24). Hyperloop Test Track Will Begin Construction In A Few Weeks. 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, (1970). Educational Programs in the Public Schools of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, 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

Jackson, L. I., (2017). Empowering African American Youth Who Live in Foster Care: A Grant Proposal, 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

Branch, J., (2016, December 22). Why Steve Kerr Sees Life Beyond the Court. New York Times, p. SP1, p. SP1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Trivedi 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Vetter and Wittinghofer 2001; Trivedi 2012).

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

Two authors: (Vetter and Wittinghofer 2001)
Three or more authors: (Choi et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems
ISSN (print)	0905-0167
ISSN (online)	1901-0990
Scope