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

Heckel, D. G. 2012. Ecology. Insecticide resistance after Silent spring. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6102): 1612–1614.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bavelier, D., & Davidson, R. J. 2013. Brain training: Games to do you good. Nature, 494(7438): 425–426.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tuch, B. B., Li, H., & Johnson, A. D. 2008. Evolution of eukaryotic transcription circuits. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5871): 1797–1799.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Yao, H., Price, T. T., Cantelli, G., Ngo, B., Warner, M. J., et al. 2018. Leukaemia hijacks a neural mechanism to invade the central nervous system. Nature, 560(7716): 55–60.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morocco, C. C., Aguilar, C. M., Bershad, C., Kotula, A. W., & Hindin, A. 2008. Supported Literacy for Adolescents. San Francisco, CA, USA: Jossey-Bass.

An edited book

Correia, T., & Zhang, Q. (Eds.). 2014. Electrocaloric Materials: New Generation of Coolers, vol. 34. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Brake, L., & Turner, M. W. 2016. Rebranding the News of the World: 1891 and After. In L. Brake, C. Kaul, & M. W. Turner (Eds.), The News of the World and the British Press, 1843–2011: Journalism for the Rich, Journalism for the Poor: 43–62. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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

Andrew, E. 2015, November 12. What Happens To Your Brain When You’re Pregnant? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/what-happens-your-brain-when-you-re-pregnant/.

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. 1989. FAA Training: Continued Improvements Needed in FAA’s Controller Field Training Program. no. RCED-89-83, 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

Meghani, H. P. 2017. Med-Equip Solutions LLC: A wheelchair distributor company business plan. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Hodara, S. 2016, August 28. Unseen Ingredients: Cash, and Lots of Time. New York Times, WE9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Heckel, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bavelier & Davidson, 2013; Heckel, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Bavelier & Davidson, 2013)
Three authors: (Tuch, Li, & Johnson, 2008)
6 or more authors: (Yao et al., 2018)

About the journal

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