How to format your references using the Information Systems and e-Business Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Information Systems and e-Business Management. 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

Balch JK (2014) Atmospheric science: drought and fire change sink to source. Nature 506:41–42

A journal article with 2 authors

Tabin CJ, McMahon AP (2008) Developmental biology. Grasping limb patterning. Science 321:350–352

A journal article with 3 authors

Nicoll RA, Tomita S, Bredt DS (2006) Auxiliary subunits assist AMPA-type glutamate receptors. Science 311:1253–1256

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kang C, Ye H, Chia J, et al (2013) Functional role of the flexible N-terminal extension of FKBP38 in catalysis. Sci Rep 3:2985

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hwang R-BR (2012) Periodic Structures. John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd, Singapore

An edited book

Marsh LK, Chapman CA (eds) (2013) Primates in Fragments: Complexity and Resilience. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Lacruz CR, Sáenz de Santamaría J, Bardales RH (2014) Normal Brain and Gliosis. In: Saénz de Santamaría J, Bardales RH (eds) Central Nervous System Intraoperative Cytopathology. Springer, New York, NY, pp 45–56

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 Information Systems and e-Business Management.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Could A Weekend Of Binge-Drinking Worsen Your Cold? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/could-weekend-binge-drinking-worsen-your-cold/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1989) ADP Planning: SSA’s February 1989 Report on Computer Modernization Is Incomplete. 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

Johnson DA (2008) Job satisfaction in the operating room: An analysis of the cultural competence of nurses. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Kelly K, Haberman M (2017) Condemnation For President By a Top Aide. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Balch 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Tabin and McMahon 2008; Balch 2014).

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

Two authors: (Tabin and McMahon 2008)
Three or more authors: (Kang et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Information Systems and e-Business Management
ISSN (print)	1617-9846
ISSN (online)	1617-9854
Scope	Information Systems