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

Booth BB (2015) Climate change. Why the Pacific is cool. Science 347:952

A journal article with 2 authors

Sime LC, Wolff EW (2011) Antarctic accumulation seasonality. Nature 479:E1-2; author reply E2-4

A journal article with 3 authors

Ye Q, Krug RM, Tao YJ (2006) The mechanism by which influenza A virus nucleoprotein forms oligomers and binds RNA. Nature 444:1078–1082

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Persson L, Amundsen P-A, De Roos AM, et al (2007) Culling prey promotes predator recovery--alternative states in a whole-lake experiment. Science 316:1743–1746

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coe JT (2000) Unlikely Victory: How General Electric Succeeded in the Chemical Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Kuntz E (2008) Hepatology Textbook and Atlas: History · Morphology Biochemistry · Diagnostics Clinic · Therapy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Thotahewa KMS, Redouté J-M, Yuce MR (2014) Hardware Architectures for IR-UWB-Based Transceivers. In: Redouté J-M, Yuce MR (eds) Ultra Wideband Wireless Body Area Networks. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 67–81

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 (2015) Experimental Greenhouses Grow Strawberries Underwater. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/underwater-greenhouses-produce-delicious-strawberries-italy/. 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 (1976) Economies Available Through Consolidating or Collocating Government Land-Based, High Frequency Communications Facilities. 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

Pan A (2017) The Mental Health and Well-Being of College Students in Cambodia. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Shear MD, Goodstein L, Haberman M (2017) Trump Is Expected to Relax Tax Rules on Churches That Actively Take Part in Politics. New York Times A15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Booth 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Sime and Wolff 2011; Booth 2015).

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

Two authors: (Sime and Wolff 2011)
Three or more authors: (Persson et al. 2007)

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