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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Academy of Management 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 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

Schmitz, R. J. 2014. Genetics. The secret garden--epigenetic alleles underlie complex traits. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6175): 1082–1083.

A journal article with 2 authors

May, M., & Davis, J. 2006. Preparing for the worst. Nature, 443(7114): 907–908.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hammarström, P., Schneider, F., & Kelly, J. W. 2001. Trans-suppression of misfolding in an amyloid disease. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5539): 2459–2462.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Wu, Y., Xiang, J., Yang, C., Lu, W., & Lieber, C. M. 2004. Single-crystal metallic nanowires and metal/semiconductor nanowire heterostructures. Nature, 430(6995): 61–65.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carroll, J. M., Bowyer-Crane, C., Duff, F. J., Hulme, C., & Snowling, M. J. 2011. Developing Language and Literacy. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Tsujii, H., Kamada, T., Shirai, T., Noda, K., Tsuji, H., et al. (Eds.). 2014. Carbon-Ion Radiotherapy: Principles, Practices, and Treatment Planning. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Kidd, T. H., Vural, M., & Ravichandran, G. 2010. Transverse Response of Unidirectional Composites Under a Wide Range of Confinements and Strain Rates. In A. Shukla, G. Ravichandran, & Y. D. S. Rajapakse (Eds.), Dynamic Failure of Materials and Structures: 131–152. Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 Journal.

Blog post

Taub, B. 2016, May 16. Common Painkiller Could Make You Less Able To Feel Empathy. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/common-painkiller-could-make-you-less-able-feel-empathy/.

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. 1990. Airline Deregulation: Trends in Airfares at Airports in Small and Medium-Sized Communities. no. RCED-91-13, 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

Tubbs, M. A. 2014. The use of hand-constructed graphs in Microcomputer-Based Laboratories for kinematics instruction. 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

(nyt), S. K. 2002, August 3. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Headscarves Banned From ID Photos. New York Times, A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schmitz, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (May & Davis, 2006; Schmitz, 2014).

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

Two authors: (May & Davis, 2006)
Three authors: (Hammarström, Schneider, & Kelly, 2001)
6 or more authors: (Wu, Xiang, Yang, Lu, & Lieber, 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Academy of Management Journal
Abbreviation	Acad. Manage. J.
ISSN (print)	0001-4273
ISSN (online)	1948-0989
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting Business and International Management Management of Technology and Innovation Strategy and Management