How to format your references using the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal citation style

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

Dalibard J. 2009. Journal club. A quantum-gas specialist learns about crystals from his own science. Nature 457(7230): 639.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goldstein JL, Brown MS. 2012. History of science. A golden era of Nobel laureates. Science (New York, N.Y.) 338(6110): 1033–1034.

A journal article with 3 authors

Whitaker RJ, Grogan DW, Taylor JW. 2003. Geographic barriers isolate endemic populations of hyperthermophilic archaea. Science (New York, N.Y.) 301(5635): 976–978.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Koster DA, Croquette V, Dekker C, Shuman S, Dekker NH. 2005. Friction and torque govern the relaxation of DNA supercoils by eukaryotic topoisomerase IB. Nature 434(7033): 671–674.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kondoz AM. 2006. Digital Speech. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Abramowitz JS, Houts AC (eds). 2005. Concepts and Controversies in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Series in Anxiety and Related Disorders. Springer US: Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Choi J, Hwang H, Hong W. 2011. Predicting the Probability of Evacuation Congestion Occurrence Relating to Elapsed Time and Vertical Section in a High-rise Building. In Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics, Peacock RD, Kuligowski ED, Averill JD (eds). Springer US: Boston, MA: 37–46.

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 Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

Blog post

Davis J. 2017, May 8. Scientists Create Amazing 3D Cast Of Renowned Philosopher’s Brain. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-create-amazing-3d-cast-of-renowned-philosophers-brain/ [30 October 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. 2005. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: Education Should Provide Additional Guidance to Help States Smoothly Transition Children to Preschool. 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

Piper MH. 2017. A Study of the Effectiveness of Alternative Schools through an Examination of Graduation Rates, School Climate, Student Motivation, and Academic Rigor. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Signer M. 2017, August 19. Charlottesville Will Move On. New York Times : A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dalibard, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Dalibard, 2009; Goldstein and Brown, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Goldstein and Brown, 2012)
Three authors: (Whitaker, Grogan, and Taylor, 2003)
4 or more authors: (Koster et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
ISSN (print)	1932-4391
ISSN (online)	1932-443X
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