How to format your references using the Engineering Management Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Engineering Management Journal. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
[1]
I. Chiorescu, “Physics. Microwave cooling of an artificial atom,” Science, vol. 314, no. 5805, pp. 1549–1550, Dec. 2006.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
G. Mourou and T. Tajima, “Physics. More intense, shorter pulses,” Science, vol. 331, no. 6013, pp. 41–42, Jan. 2011.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
T. Ichimura, K. Fujiwara, and H. Tanaka, “Dual field effects in electrolyte-gated spinel ferrite: electrostatic carrier doping and redox reactions,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 5818, Jul. 2014.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
[1]
J. Yao, K. M. Munson, W. W. Webb, and J. T. Lis, “Dynamics of heat shock factor association with native gene loci in living cells,” Nature, vol. 442, no. 7106, pp. 1050–1053, Aug. 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
S. D. Promislow, Fundamentals of Actuarial Mathematics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2010.
An edited book
[1]
M. J. Martin and A. C. Beekley, Eds., Front Line Surgery: A Practical Approach. New York, NY: Springer, 2011.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
T. Faravelli, A. Frassoldati, E. Barker Hemings, and E. Ranzi, “Multistep Kinetic Model of Biomass Pyrolysis,” in Cleaner Combustion: Developing Detailed Chemical Kinetic Models, F. Battin-Leclerc, J. M. Simmie, and E. Blurock, Eds., in Green Energy and Technology. , London: Springer, 2013, pp. 111–139.

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 Engineering Management Journal.

Blog post
[1]
J. Davis, “Penis-Less Reptile Unravels Mystery Of Phallic Evolution,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/penis-less-reptile-unravels-mystery-phallic-evolution/

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
[1]
Government Accountability Office, “Postsecondary Education: College and University Endowments Have Shown Long-Term Growth, While Size, Restrictions, and Distributions Vary,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-10-393, Feb. 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
C. McGrew, “Living with Diabetes: The Value of Everyday Communication,” Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2008.

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
[1]
Michael Kelly With, “THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Vietnam War; Campaign Focus on Vietnam Reviving Debates of the 60’s,” New York Times, p. A1, Oct. 09, 1992.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1], [2].
This sentence cites four references [1], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal titleEngineering Management Journal
ISSN (print)0960-7919
ScopeManagement Science and Operations Research
General Engineering

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