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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European 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	Download the output style file
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

Check, E. (2002). Alternative therapies leave US commission divided. Nature, 416(6879), 355.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, G., & Goeddel, D. V. (2002). TNF-R1 signaling: a beautiful pathway. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5573), 1634–1635.

A journal article with 3 authors

Micol-Ponce, R., Aguilera, V., & Ponce, M. R. (2014). A genetic screen for suppressors of a hypomorphic allele of Arabidopsis ARGONAUTE1. Scientific Reports, 4, 5533.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Tan, C. S. H., Go, K. D., Bisteau, X., Dai, L., Yong, C. H., Prabhu, N., Ozturk, M. B., Lim, Y. T., Sreekumar, L., Lengqvist, J., Tergaonkar, V., Kaldis, P., Sobota, R. M., & Nordlund, P. (2018). Thermal proximity coaggregation for system-wide profiling of protein complex dynamics in cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 359(6380), 1170–1177.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Torres-Moreno, J.-M. (2014). Automatic Text Summarization. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ma, H. (2012). China’s Energy Economy: Situation, Reforms, Behavior, and Energy Intensity (L. Oxley, Ed.; Vol. 13). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bdiwi, M., Kolker, A., Suchý, J., & Winkler, A. (2013). Automated Assistance Robot System for Transferring Model-Free Objects From/To Human Hand Using Vision/Force Control. In G. Herrmann, M. J. Pearson, A. Lenz, P. Bremner, A. Spiers, & U. Leonards (Eds.), Social Robotics: 5th International Conference, ICSR 2013, Bristol, UK, October 27-29, 2013, Proceedings (pp. 40–53). Springer International Publishing.

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 European Management Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, April 13). Sneezing Flings Your Spit and Germs 200 Times Further Than Previously Thought. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1977). Manned Undersea Science and Technology Needs Focus and Direction (PSAD-77-130). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Spralja, K. P. (2014). The intersections of culture and business: An ethnographic study of multicultural second generation young entrepreneurs [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

Wagner, J. (2017, February 4). Flores, Mets’ Lone Holdout, Wins His Arbitration Case. New York Times, SP2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Check, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Check, 2002; Chen & Goeddel, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Chen & Goeddel, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Tan et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Management Journal
Abbreviation	Eur. Manag. J.
ISSN (print)	0263-2373
Scope	Strategy and Management