How to format your references using the Academy of Management Discoveries citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Academy of Management Discoveries. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Taylor, R. 2014. Hydrology: When wells run dry. Nature, 516(7530): 179–180.

A journal article with 2 authors

Khosla, C., & Harbury, P. B. 2001. Modular enzymes. Nature, 409(6817): 247–252.

A journal article with 3 authors

Johnson, S. C., Rabinovitch, P. S., & Kaeberlein, M. 2013. mTOR is a key modulator of ageing and age-related disease. Nature, 493(7432): 338–345.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Pearthree, P. A., Spencer, J. E., Faulds, J. E., & House, P. K. 2008. Comment on “Age and evolution of the Grand Canyon revealed by U-Pb dating of water table-type speleothems.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5896): 1634.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Basener, W. F. 2006. Topology and Its Applications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Eleftheriou, E., & Moheimani, S. O. R. (Eds.). 2011. Control Technologies for Emerging Micro and Nanoscale Systems, vol. 413. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dralus, G. 2010. The Investigating of Influence of Quality Criteria Coefficients on Global Complex Models. In L. Rutkowski, R. Scherer, R. Tadeusiewicz, L. A. Zadeh, & J. M. Zurada (Eds.), Artifical Intelligence and Soft Computing: 10th International Conference, ICAISC 2010, Zakopane, Poland, June 13-17, 2010, Part II: 26–33. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Academy of Management Discoveries.

Blog post

Hale, T. 2016, September 29. This Super-Realistic 3D Printed Body Is Helping Train Surgeons. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/this-super-realistic-3d-printed-body-is-helping-train-surgeons/.

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. 2007. National Transportation Safety Board: Observations on the Draft Business Plan for NTSB’s Training Center. no. GAO-07-886R, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Perry, E. M. 2010. Live and let live: Negotiating difference in a diverse urban neighborhood. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Kishkovsky, S. 2003, October 27. MOSCOW: THE BALLERINA SUES. New York Times, E2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Taylor, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Khosla & Harbury, 2001; Taylor, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Khosla & Harbury, 2001)
Three authors: (Johnson, Rabinovitch, & Kaeberlein, 2013)
6 or more authors: (Pearthree, Spencer, Faulds, & House, 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Academy of Management Discoveries
Abbreviation	Acad. Manag. Discov.
ISSN (print)	2168-1007
Scope