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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Maynard AD (2011) Don’t define nanomaterials. Nature 475:31

A journal article with 2 authors

Marraffini LA, Sontheimer EJ (2008) CRISPR interference limits horizontal gene transfer in staphylococci by targeting DNA. Science 322:1843–1845

A journal article with 3 authors

Shevenell AE, Kennett JP, Lea DW (2004) Middle Miocene Southern Ocean cooling and Antarctic cryosphere expansion. Science 305:1766–1770

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Conrad KL, Tseng KY, Uejima JL, et al (2008) Formation of accumbens GluR2-lacking AMPA receptors mediates incubation of cocaine craving. Nature 454:118–121

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Summerhayes SD (2016) CDM Regulations 2015 Procedures Manual. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Fikentscher W (2013) FairEconomy: Crises, Culture, Competition and the Role of Law. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Jenkins DH (2011) The Effects of Bullets. In: Brooks AJ, Clasper J, Midwinter M, et al. (eds) Ryan’s Ballistic Trauma: A Practical Guide. Springer, London, pp 37–40

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) How Close Are We To Actually Becoming Martians? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-close-are-we-actually-becoming-martians/. 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 (1994) Aviation Insurance: Federal Insurance Program Needs Improvements to Ensure Success. 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

Mantilla AN (2012) The differences in the educational experiences and caregiver involvement in education between youth in foster care and those in care of their biological parents. 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

Pilon M (2012) Skipping School and Work? They Just Felt Blue. New York Times B13

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Maynard 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Marraffini and Sontheimer 2008; Maynard 2011).

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

Two authors: (Marraffini and Sontheimer 2008)
Three or more authors: (Conrad et al. 2008)

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