How to format your references using the Computational Management Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computational Management Science. 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

Sun T-P (2014) Plant Science. Sex and the single fern. Science 346:423–424

A journal article with 2 authors

Hooley CA, Mackenzie AP (2007) Physics. Heavy fermions in the original Fermi liquid. Science 317:1332–1333

A journal article with 3 authors

Wei Z-W, Wang B-H, Han X-P (2013) Renormalization and small-world model of fractal quantum repeater networks. Sci Rep 3:1222

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hornekaer L, Baurichter A, Petrunin VV, et al (2003) Importance of surface morphology in interstellar H2 formation. Science 302:1943–1946

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reiss E, Shadomy HJ, Lyon GM III (2011) Fundamental Medical Mycology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Macey GP, Cannon JZ (eds) (2007) Reclaiming the Land: Rethinking Superfund Institutions, Methods and Practices. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Hadar Y, Cullen D (2013) 5 Organopollutant Degradation by Wood Decay Basidiomycetes. In: Kempken F (ed) Agricultural Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 115–141

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 Computational Management Science.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Vitamin Supplement Prevents Noise-Induced Hearing Loss In Mice. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/vitamin-supplement-prevents-noise-induced-hearing-loss-mice/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1977) The Legality of the Release of Construction Grant Funds by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare for the University of California’s Proposed School of Dentistry. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kim H (2008) Prediction and Elimination of Galling in Forming Galvanized Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS). Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University

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

Burghardt LF (2007) Neighbors Protest Flea Market’s Move to Belmont Park. New York Times 14WC6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sun 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Hooley and Mackenzie 2007; Sun 2014).

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

Two authors: (Hooley and Mackenzie 2007)
Three or more authors: (Hornekaer et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Computational Management Science
Abbreviation	Comput. Manag. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1619-697X
ISSN (online)	1619-6988
Scope	Management Information Systems Information Systems