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

del Alamo, J. A. 2011. Nanometre-scale electronics with III-V compound semiconductors. Nature, 479(7373): 317–323.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shcheka, S. S., & Keppler, H. 2012. The origin of the terrestrial noble-gas signature. Nature, 490(7421): 531–534.

A journal article with 3 authors

Beldade, P., Brakefield, P. M., & Long, A. D. 2002. Contribution of Distal-less to quantitative variation in butterfly eyespots. Nature, 415(6869): 315–318.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Rini, M., Magnes, B.-Z., Pines, E., & Nibbering, E. T. J. 2003. Real-time observation of bimodal proton transfer in acid-base pairs in water. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5631): 349–352.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stephanie Hammer. 2013. Architects of Electronic Trading. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Holmes, J. H., Bellazzi, R., Sacchi, L., & Peek, N. (Eds.). 2015. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: 15th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2015, Pavia, Italy, June 17-20, 2015. Proceedings, vol. 9105. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee, C., & Longo, V. 2016. The Impact of Cancer Treatments on Aging. In F. Sierra & R. Kohanski (Eds.), Advances in Geroscience: 85–119. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Fang, J. 2014, July 19. Why Smaller Mammals Are More Susceptible To Cancer. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-smaller-mammals-are-more-susceptible-cancer/.

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. 1991. NASA Procurement: Management Oversight of Contract Costs and Time Changes Could Be Enhanced. no. NSIAD-91-259, 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

Alexander, B. C. 2009. A descriptive study of intercollegiate athletics in Mississippi’s public community and junior colleges. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Pilon, M. 2014, February 14. Because Curlers Can Pull Muscles, Too. New York Times, B15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (del Alamo, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (del Alamo, 2011; Shcheka & Keppler, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Shcheka & Keppler, 2012)
Three authors: (Beldade, Brakefield, & Long, 2002)
6 or more authors: (Rini, Magnes, Pines, & Nibbering, 2003)

About the journal

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