How to format your references using the Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP). 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Parham, P. (2004). Immunology. NK cells lose their inhibition. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5685), 786–787.

A journal article with 2 authors

Doebeli, M., & Dieckmann, U. (2003). Speciation along environmental gradients. Nature, 421(6920), 259–264.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rockman, H. A., Koch, W. J., & Lefkowitz, R. J. (2002). Seven-transmembrane-spanning receptors and heart function. Nature, 415(6868), 206–212.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Lyapina, S., Cope, G., Shevchenko, A., Serino, G., Tsuge, T., Zhou, C., Wolf, D. A., Wei, N., Shevchenko, A., & Deshaies, R. J. (2001). Promotion of NEDD-CUL1 conjugate cleavage by COP9 signalosome. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5520), 1382–1385.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kölle, W. (2017). Wasseranalysen - richtig beurteilt. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Sterer, N. (2011). Breath Odors: Origin, Diagnosis, and Management (M. Rosenberg, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ameratunga, J., Sivakugan, N., & Das, B. M. (2016). Cone Penetrometer Test. In N. Sivakugan & B. M. Das (Eds.), Correlations of Soil and Rock Properties in Geotechnical Engineering (pp. 115–157). Springer India.

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 Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, April 10). Unlike A Rolling Stone: Is Science Really Better Than Journalism At Self-Correction? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/unlike-rolling-stone-science-really-better-journalism-self-correction/

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. (1993). Vocational Education: Status in 2-Year Colleges in 1990-91 and Early Signs of Change (HRD-93-89). 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

Munn, J. E. (2017). Information Technology Certification Training Implementation: Exploratory Case Study of Air Force and Civilian Leaders Experiences [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Saslow, L. (2006, December 3). 13 Hospitals to Remove Trans Fats From Meals. New York Times, 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Parham, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Doebeli & Dieckmann, 2003; Parham, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Doebeli & Dieckmann, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Lyapina et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Abbreviation	Entrep.. Theory Pr.
ISSN (print)	1042-2587
ISSN (online)	1540-6520
Scope	Business and International Management Economics and Econometrics