How to format your references using the Academy of Management Learning and Education citation style

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

Gibney, E. 2014. How to tame the flood of literature. Nature, 513(7516): 129–130.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wheeler, T., & von Braun, J. 2013. Climate change impacts on global food security. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6145): 508–513.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mukhopadhyay, S., Farley, K. A., & Montanari, A. 2001. A short duration of the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary event: evidence from extraterrestrial helium-3. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5510): 1952–1955.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Biron, K. E., Dickstein, D. L., Gopaul, R., Fenninger, F., & Jefferies, W. A. 2013. Cessation of neoangiogenesis in Alzheimer’s disease follows amyloid-beta immunization. Scientific Reports, 3: 1354.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Merrills, J., & Fisher, J. 2008. Pharmacy Law and Practice. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd.

An edited book

Kerschen, G. (Ed.). 2016. Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015 (1st ed. 2016). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kalnins, A., & Barzdins, J. 2016. Metamodel Specialization for DSL Tool Building. In G. Arnicans, V. Arnicane, J. Borzovs, & L. Niedrite (Eds.), Databases and Information Systems: 12th International Baltic Conference, DB&IS 2016, Riga, Latvia, July 4-6, 2016, Proceedings: 68–82. 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 Learning and Education.

Blog post

Andrews, R. 2016, November 11. This Awkward Feathered Dinosaur Was Almost Blown Up By Dynamite. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/awkward-feathered-dinosaur-almost-blown-up-dynamite/.

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. 1996. Economic Espionage: Information on Threat From U.S. Allies. no. T-NSIAD-96-114, 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

Mosing, P. R. 2009. Maternal perceptions of their infants: Do perceptions predict maternal motivation to nurture? Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Quain, J. R. 2017, March 9. Cars Will Talk to One Another. Exactly How Is Less Certain. New York Times, B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gibney, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Gibney, 2014; Wheeler & von Braun, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Wheeler & von Braun, 2013)
Three authors: (Mukhopadhyay, Farley, & Montanari, 2001)
6 or more authors: (Biron, Dickstein, Gopaul, Fenninger, & Jefferies, 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Academy of Management Learning and Education
Abbreviation	Acad. Manag. Learn. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1537-260X
ISSN (online)	1944-9585
Scope	Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Education