How to format your references using the IIMB Management Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IIMB Management Review. 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

Urquhart, K. (2000). EUROPEAN SCIENCE: U.K. Unveils “Brain Gain” Initiative. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289(5480), 713b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Okamoto, S., & Millis, A. J. (2004). Electronic reconstruction at an interface between a Mott insulator and a band insulator. Nature, 428(6983), 630–633.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chih, B., Engelman, H., & Scheiffele, P. (2005). Control of excitatory and inhibitory synapse formation by neuroligins. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5713), 1324–1328.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Erlebacher, J., Aziz, M. J., Karma, A., Dimitrov, N., & Sieradzki, K. (2001). Evolution of nanoporosity in dealloying. Nature, 410(6827), 450–453.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prydie, D., & Hewitt, I. (2015). Practical Physiotherapy for Small Animal Practice. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Trautschold, M. (2010). BlackBerry Curve Made Simple: For the BlackBerry Curve 8520, 8530 and 8500 Series (G. Mazo, S. Anglin, J. Markham, C. Andres, M. Beckner, E. Buckingham, G. Cornell, J. Gennick, J. Hassell, M. Lowman, M. Moodie, D. Parkes, J. Pepper, F. Pohlmann, D. Pundick, B. Renow-Clarke, D. Shakeshaft, M. Wade, T. Welsh, … K. Stence, Eds.). Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Gordon, K. C., & Fraser-Miller, S. J. (2016). Raman Spectroscopy. In A. Müllertz, Y. Perrie, & T. Rades (Eds.), Analytical Techniques in the Pharmaceutical Sciences (pp. 139–169). Springer.

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 IIMB Management Review.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, September 26). Skin-Like Patch Monitors Your Heart. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/skin-patch-monitors-heart-health/

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. (1992). Mass Transit Grants: Noncompliance and Misspent Funds by Two Grantees in UMTA’s New York Region (RCED-92-38). 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

Boos, A. L. (2015). The post-abortion experience: A content analysis [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

Kurdewan, J. (2016, December 16). Bill Cunningham, Unpublished. New York Times, ST4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Urquhart, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Okamoto & Millis, 2004; Urquhart, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Okamoto & Millis, 2004)
Three authors: (Chih et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Erlebacher et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	IIMB Management Review
ISSN (print)	0970-3896
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting Economics and Econometrics