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

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

BROMM V (2014) Astronomy. Imprint of an ancient conflagration. Science (New York, N.Y.) 345(6199), 868–869.

A journal article with 2 authors

CORMA A and SERNA P (2006) Chemoselective hydrogenation of nitro compounds with supported gold catalysts. Science (New York, N.Y.) 313(5785), 332–334.

A journal article with 3 authors

ROUGIER GW, FORASIEPI AM and MARTINELLI AG (2005) Comment on ‘Independent origins of middle ear bones in monotremes and therians’ (II). Science (New York, N.Y.) 309(5740), 1492; author reply 1492.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

HŸTCH M, HOUDELLIER F, HÜE F and SNOECK E (2008) Nanoscale holographic interferometry for strain measurements in electronic devices. Nature 453(7198), 1086–1089.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

TMS (2011) Engineering Solutions for Sustainability. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

FESTEL G, OELS U, KREIMEYER A and ZEDTWITZ M von (eds) (2005) The Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry in China: Opportunities and Threats for Foreign Companies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

SANNA A and MONNI G (2015) Recovery and Reuse of the Architectural and Urban Heritage of Carbonia, a 20th-Century Company Town. Materials for a Handbook. In Built Heritage: Monitoring Conservation Management (Toniolo L, Boriani M, & Guidi G, Eds), Research for Development. pp 55–67, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 European Journal of Information Systems.

Blog post

O`CALLAGHAN J (2016) An Artist Wants To 3D Print Someone’s Laugh In Space. [Online] Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/an-artist-wants-to-3d-print-someones-laugh-in-space/ (accessed 30/10/18).

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 (1997) Direct Student Loans: Analyses of Borrowers’ Use of the Income Contingent Repayment Option. 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

PAPACOSTAKI M (2010) Under the black sun. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

SISARIO B (2017) Despite Security Measures, Concert Arenas Present ‘Target-Rich’ Environments. New York Times, A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bromm, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Corma & Serna, 2006; Bromm, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Corma & Serna, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Hÿtch et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Information Systems
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Inf. Syst.
ISSN (print)	0960-085X
ISSN (online)	1476-9344
Scope	Information Systems Library and Information Sciences