JAIS reference format

What JAIS expects

• Reference style: APA, 7th edition. Section 6 of the JAIS Submission Style Guide has in-text and reference examples.
• Manuscript format: Double-spaced, Times New Roman 12 pt. The author page names no LaTeX class or .bst file.
• Length: Research articles over 15,000 words are likely to get extra scrutiny and may be returned to be shortened. Manuscripts over 65 pages, including everything, are not sent for review.
• Review: Double-blind. Author names should not appear in any obvious way, and references should not reveal identity.

Setting up the bibliography

JAIS does not publish a BibTeX style. If you draft in LaTeX, one way to get APA 7 references is biblatex with the apa style and Biber:

\usepackage[style=apa, backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{refs.bib}
...
\printbibliography

This setup is the one our APA 7 template page uses. It is our suggestion, not a JAIS instruction, and the submitted manuscript still has to meet the JAIS formatting rules above.

Three references in APA 7

1. Benbasat, I., & Barki, H. (2007). Quo vadis TAM? Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 8(4), 211–218. https://doi.org/10.17705/1jais.00126
2. Gefen, D., & Straub, D. (2000). The relative importance of perceived ease of use in IS adoption: A study of e-commerce adoption. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 1(1), 1–30. https://doi.org/10.17705/1jais.00008
3. Venkatesh, V., Thong, J., & Xu, X. (2016). Unified theory of acceptance and use of technology: A synthesis and the road ahead. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 17(5), 328–376. https://doi.org/10.17705/1jais.00428

Formatted by hand in APA 7. Author initials follow the Crossref record for each DOI. Titles, authors, volumes and pages were checked against Crossref on 2026-10-01.

LaTeX template

The JAIS author page does not offer a LaTeX template. For an APA 7 manuscript skeleton in LaTeX, see our APA 7 (apa7) template, and check the result against the JAIS Submission Style Guide before you submit.

Common mistakes

• Formatting from memory of another journal. JAIS names APA 7th edition, and Section 6 of its Submission Style Guide has the reference examples to copy.
• Counting pages without the references. The 65-page limit covers everything in the file.
• Self-citations that identify you. The author page asks that references not reveal the authors' identity.

Check your .bib file

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