How to format your references using the Journal of International Entrepreneurship citation style

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

Chang J (2015) Core services: Reward bioinformaticians. Nature 520:151–152

A journal article with 2 authors

Swaddle JP, Biewener AA (2000) Exercise and reduced muscle mass in starlings. Nature 406:585–586

A journal article with 3 authors

Santamaría L, Diaz M, Valladares F (2013) Science in Europe. Dark clouds over Spanish science. Science 340:1292

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chang CW, Okawa D, Majumdar A, Zettl A (2006) Solid-state thermal rectifier. Science 314:1121–1124

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Snopek L (2012) The Complete Guide to Portfolio Construction and Management. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, UK

An edited book

Renals S, Bengio S (eds) (2006) Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction: Second International Workshop, MLMI 2005, Edinburgh, UK, July 11-13, 2005, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Castellano G, Fanelli AM, Torsello MA (2013) Web Usage Mining: Discovering Usage Patterns for Web Applications. In: Velásquez JD, Palade V, Jain LC (eds) Advanced Techniques in Web Intelligence-2: Web User Browsing Behaviour and Preference Analysis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 75–104

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 Journal of International Entrepreneurship.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) Kids Who Suck Their Thumbs And Bite Their Nails May Have Fewer Allergies. In: IFLScience. 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 (1974) Inquiry About the Office of Telecommunications Policy. 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

Mai J (2017) College Application Behaviors: Factors Impacting the College Choices of High School Seniors. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

BRUCE LAMBERT; Linda Saslow contributed reporting for this article (2005) County Chief Sets Sights on School Tax. New York Times B11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chang 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Swaddle and Biewener 2000; Chang 2015).

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

Two authors: (Swaddle and Biewener 2000)
Three or more authors: (Chang et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of International Entrepreneurship
Abbreviation	J. Int. Entrep..
ISSN (print)	1570-7385
ISSN (online)	1573-7349
Scope	Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)