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

Barnes DK (2001) Resource availability: Ancient homes for hard-up hermit crabs. Nature 412:785–786

A journal article with 2 authors

Kagaya K, Takahata M (2011) Sequential synaptic excitation and inhibition shape readiness discharge for voluntary behavior. Science 332:365–368

A journal article with 3 authors

Acevedo A, Brodsky L, Andino R (2014) Mutational and fitness landscapes of an RNA virus revealed through population sequencing. Nature 505:686–690

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Politi Y, Arad T, Klein E, et al (2004) Sea urchin spine calcite forms via a transient amorphous calcium carbonate phase. Science 306:1161–1164

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghaye T (2008) Developing the Reflective Healthcare Team. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Hayes C, Hartlep ND (eds) (2013) Unhooking from Whiteness. SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

Ullah AA, Huque AS (2014) Discrimination, Xenophobia and Stigmatization. In: Huque AS (ed) Asian Immigrants in North America with HIV/AIDS: Stigma, Vulnerabilities and Human Rights. Springer, Singapore, pp 81–110

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

Luntz S (2015) Cancer Vaccine Delivered Via Coated Bacteria. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/cancer-vaccine-delivered-coated-bacteria/. 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 (1990) Overseas Allowances: Improvements Needed in Administration. 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

Peacock C (2012) Design science research toward designing/prototyping a repeatable model for testing location management (LM) algorithms for wireless networking. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Chapman MM (2014) Bankruptcy Judge Gets View of Detroit Outside Courtroom. New York Times A13

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Barnes 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Barnes 2001; Kagaya and Takahata 2011).

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

Two authors: (Kagaya and Takahata 2011)
Three or more authors: (Politi et al. 2004)

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