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:

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

[1]

J. J. Dalcanton, “18 years of science with the Hubble Space Telescope,” Nature, vol. 457, no. 7225, pp. 41–50, Jan. 2009.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E. Smith and A. Shilatifard, “Developmental biology. Histone cross-talk in stem cells,” Science, vol. 323, no. 5911, pp. 221–222, Jan. 2009.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G. Falkovich, A. Fouxon, and M. G. Stepanov, “Acceleration of rain initiation by cloud turbulence,” Nature, vol. 419, no. 6903, pp. 151–154, Sep. 2002.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

X. Xin, Y. Wan, W. Wang, G. Yin, E. S. McLamore, and X. Lu, “A real-time, non-invasive, micro-optrode technique for detecting seed viability by using oxygen influx,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 3057, Oct. 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Packard, Digital Media Law. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

G. Meyer, J. Valldorf, and W. Gessner, Eds., Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 2009: Smart Systems for Safety, Sustainability, and Comfort. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. U. Simon, “Spectral Norm in Learning Theory: Some Selected Topics,” in Algorithmic Learning Theory: 17th International Conference, ALT 2006, Barcelona, Spain, October 7-10, 2006. Proceedings, J. L. Balcázar, P. M. Long, and F. Stephan, Eds. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2006, pp. 13–27.

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]

S. Luntz, “Light-Operated, Gecko-Like Stickiness Could Make Wall-Climbing Robots,” IFLScience, Jan. 18, 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/lightoperated-geckolike-stickiness-could-make-wallclimbing-robots/ (accessed Oct. 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, “Survey of Large- and Medium-Hub Airports on Existing and Planned Bus and Rail Connections, an E-supplement to GAO-05-727,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-05-738SP, Jul. 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. P. Williams, “Reentry of Substance Abusing Female Ex-Offenders from Prison to an Urban Community,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2012.

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]

L. Simon, “In the Blink of an Eye, a Vision of Disaster,” New York Times, p. F6, Sep. 04, 2007.

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]–[4].

About the journal

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

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