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

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

Herculano-Houzel, S., 2013. Neuroscience. Sleep it out. Science 342, 316–317.

A journal article with 2 authors

Choi, J.-K., Bowles, S., 2007. The coevolution of parochial altruism and war. Science 318, 636–640.

A journal article with 3 authors

Forbes, J.M., Bruinsma, S., Lemoine, F.G., 2006. Solar rotation effects on the thermospheres of Mars and Earth. Science 312, 1366–1368.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Woudstra, E.C., Gilbert, C., Fellows, J., Jansen, L., Brouwer, J., Erdjument-Bromage, H., Tempst, P., Svejstrup, J.Q., 2002. A Rad26-Def1 complex coordinates repair and RNA pol II proteolysis in response to DNA damage. Nature 415, 929–933.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paul, S., 2010. Digital Video Distribution in Broadband, Television, Mobile and Converged Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Azar, A.T., Vaidyanathan, S. (Eds.), 2016. Advances in Chaos Theory and Intelligent Control, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Ballerio, S., Cerizza, D., 2013. Using Text Mining to Validate Diagnoses of Acute Myocardial Infarction, in: Grieco, N., Marzegalli, M., Paganoni, A.M. (Eds.), New Diagnostic, Therapeutic and Organizational Strategies for Acute Coronary Syndromes Patients, Contributions to Statistics. Springer, Milano, pp. 69–82.

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 Strategic Information Systems.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Researchers Discover Extra DNA Base [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1978. Establishment of a Central Focal Point for Telecommunications Matters (No. B-131935). 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

Douville, S., 2014. The lived experience of being a European wife to a U.S. Marine: A heuristic study (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

Koblin, J., 2017. Before Series Debut, FX Says ‘Feud’ Will Endure. New York Times B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Herculano-Houzel, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Choi and Bowles, 2007; Herculano-Houzel, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Choi and Bowles, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Woudstra et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Abbreviation	J. Strat. Inf. Syst.
ISSN (print)	0963-8687
Scope	Management Information Systems Information Systems Information Systems and Management