How to format your references using the Information Systems Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Information Systems Research. 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

Rothchild L (2000) This Year’s . . Science 289(5481):871–872.

A journal article with 2 authors

Walton GM, Cohen GL (2011) A brief social-belonging intervention improves academic and health outcomes of minority students. Science 331(6023):1447–1451.

A journal article with 3 authors

Charlesworth JD, Warren TL, Brainard MS (2012) Covert skill learning in a cortical-basal ganglia circuit. Nature 486(7402):251–255.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Larbalestier D, Gurevich A, Feldmann DM, Polyanskii A (2001) High-Tc superconducting materials for electric power applications. Nature 414(6861):368–377.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

AIChE Equipment Testing Procedure (1993) Particle Size Classifiers (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ).

An edited book

Faulin J, Juan AA, Martorell S, Ramírez-Márquez JE eds. (2010) Simulation Methods for Reliability and Availability of Complex Systems (Springer, London).

A chapter in an edited book

Brown E, Morales MA, Pierleoni C, Ceperley D (2014) Quantum Monte Carlo Techniques and Applications for Warm Dense Matter. Graziani F, Desjarlais MP, Redmer R, Trickey SB, eds. Frontiers and Challenges in Warm Dense Matter Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering. (Springer International Publishing, Cham), 123–149.

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 Research.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) Is The Red Wine Compound Resveratrol A Miracle Drug For Infertility and Ageing? IFLScience. Retrieved (October 30, 2018), https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/is-the-red-wine-compound-resveratrol-a-miracle-drug-for-infertility-and-ageing/.

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 (2015) Screening Partnership Program: TSA Can Benefit from Improved Cost Estimates (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

Jordan AD (2008) Measuring the efficacy of a Ninth Grade Academy on students with disabilities. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

(nyt) SK (2002) World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Rebels Avenge A Leader’s Death. New York Times (May 16).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rothchild 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Rothchild 2000, Walton and Cohen 2011).

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

Two authors: (Walton and Cohen 2011)
Three or more authors: (Larbalestier et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Information Systems Research
Abbreviation	Inf. Syst. Res.
ISSN (print)	1047-7047
ISSN (online)	1526-5536
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Information Systems Information Systems and Management Library and Information Sciences