How to format your references using the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal citation style

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

Mejia R. 2006. Human rights: from accountability to rebuilding. Science (New York, N.Y.) 313(5785): 289.

A journal article with 2 authors

Blaauw M, Christen JA. 2005. The problems of radiocarbon dating. Science (New York, N.Y.) 308(5728): 1551–3; author reply 1551-3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ho Choi S, Kim B, Frisbie CD. 2008. Electrical resistance of long conjugated molecular wires. Science (New York, N.Y.) 320(5882): 1482–1486.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Kahraman M, Daggumati P, Kurtulus O, Seker E, Wachsmann-Hogiu S. 2013. Fabrication and characterization of flexible and tunable plasmonic nanostructures. Scientific reports 3: 3396.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Plumb JA, Hanson LA. 2010. Health Maintenance and Principal Microbial Diseases of Cultured Fishes. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Fernandes GW, Santos JC (eds). 2014. Neotropical Insect Galls. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee CK. 2014. Signal Analysis: Acquisition, Storage, and Analysis of Physiological Signals. In Monitoring Technologies in Acute Care Environments: A Comprehensive Guide to Patient Monitoring Technology, Ehrenfeld JM, Cannesson M (eds). Springer: New York, NY: 29–33.

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 Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015, July 20. Endangered Rhinos in South Africa Will Be Fitted With Spy Cameras In Their Horns. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/endangered-rhinos-south-africa-be-fitted-spy-cameras-deter-poachers/ [30 October 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. 2011. Highway Trust Fund: All States Received More Funding Than They Contributed in Highway Taxes from 2005 to 2009. 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

Aguilar M. 2010. Latina single mothers: Perspectives on parenting. 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

Shear MD, Goodstein L, Haberman M. 2017, May 3. Trump Is Expected to Relax Tax Rules on Churches That Actively Take Part in Politics. New York Times : A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mejia, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Blaauw and Christen, 2005; Mejia, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Blaauw and Christen, 2005)
Three authors: (Ho Choi, Kim, and Frisbie, 2008)
4 or more authors: (Kahraman et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
ISSN (print)	1932-4391
ISSN (online)	1932-443X
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