How to format your references using the IMA Journal of Management Mathematics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IMA Journal of Management Mathematics. 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

Ho, C.-H. (2014) Amorphous effect on the advancing of wide-range absorption and structural-phase transition in γ-In2Se3 polycrystalline layers. Sci. Rep., 4, 4764.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rosenberg, M.I. & Desplan, C. (2010) Molecular biology. Hiding in plain sight. Science, 329, 284–285.

A journal article with 3 authors

Childs, A.M., Gosset, D., & Webb, Z. (2013) Universal computation by multiparticle quantum walk. Science, 339, 791–794.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jirawatnotai, S., Hu, Y., Michowski, W., Elias, J.E., Becks, L., Bienvenu, F., Zagozdzon, A., Goswami, T., Wang, Y.E., Clark, A.B., Kunkel, T.A., van Harn, T., Xia, B., Correll, M., Quackenbush, J., Livingston, D.M., Gygi, S.P., & Sicinski, P. (2011) A function for cyclin D1 in DNA repair uncovered by protein interactome analyses in human cancers. Nature, 474, 230–234.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Singh, J. (2017) Functional Software Size Measurement Methodology with Effort Estimation and Performance Indication. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Middleton, B.A. (2012) Global Change and the Function and Distribution of Wetlands, vol. 1. , Global Change Ecology and Wetlands. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Prasad, M. (2013) Ladkan Khelayan Hai. Indian Diaspora: Voices of Grandparents and Grandparenting, Transgressions (Singh, A. ed). Rotterdam: SensePublishers, pp. 103–124.

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 IMA Journal of Management Mathematics.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2017) Why Bad Moods Are Good For You: The Surprising Benefits Of Sadness. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-bad-moods-are-good-for-you-the-surprising-benefits-of-sadness/.

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 (1989) Reports Issued in June 1989 ( No. 139191). 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

Mathus, M.A. (2017) The Relationship between Teacher Evaluation Ratings and Student Achievement in a Rural, Midwest School District (Doctoral dissertation).

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

Leland, J. (2016) Worn With Pride. New York Times, MB9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ho, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Rosenberg & Desplan, 2010; Ho, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Rosenberg & Desplan, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Jirawatnotai et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	IMA Journal of Management Mathematics
Abbreviation	IMA J. Manag. Math.
ISSN (print)	1471-678X
ISSN (online)	1471-6798
Scope	Management Information Systems Strategy and Management Management Science and Operations Research General Economics, Econometrics and Finance Applied Mathematics Modelling and Simulation