How to format your references using the International Journal of Cross Cultural Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Cross Cultural Management. 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
Gill JL (2015) ECOLOGY. Learning from Africa’s herbivores. Science (New York, N.Y.) 350(6264): 1036–1037.
A journal article with 2 authors
Kuo SC and McGrath JL (2000) Steps and fluctuations of Listeria monocytogenes during actin-based motility. Nature 407(6807): 1026–1029.
A journal article with 3 authors
Vafabakhsh R, Levitz J and Isacoff EY (2015) Conformational dynamics of a class C G-protein-coupled receptor. Nature 524(7566): 497–501.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Keppler F, Eiden R, Niedan V, et al. (2000) Halocarbons produced by natural oxidation processes during degradation of organic matter. Nature 403(6767): 298–301.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Smirnov BM (2011) Fundamentals of Ionized Gases. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.
An edited book
Castelnuovo P (2013) Surgical Anatomy of the Internal Carotid Artery: An Atlas for Skull Base Surgeons (eds I Dallan and M Tschabitscher). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Nguyen LHV and Bonnet C (2014) Stabilization of Some Fractional Neutral Delay Systems Which Possibly Possess an Infinite Number of Unstable Poles. In: Seuret A, Özbay H, Bonnet C, et al. (eds) Low-Complexity Controllers for Time-Delay Systems. Advances in Delays and Dynamics. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 47–60.

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 International Journal of Cross Cultural Management.

Blog post
Luntz S (2016) HMS Terror Rediscovered 170 Years After Ill-Fated Northwest Passage Attempt. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/hms-terror-rediscovered-170-years-after-illfated-northwest-passage-attempt/ (accessed 30 October 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
Government Accountability Office (1998) Civil Agencies Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments. AA-98-29(2), 1 May. Washington, DC: 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
Kamph M (2017) Examining Commodity, Agency, and Value: Prehistoric French Replicas, Casts, and ‘Frauds’ within the National Museum of Natural History’s Collection. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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
Kishkovsky S (2003) New Kirov Home in Golden Glass. New York Times, 1 July.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gill, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Gill, 2015; Kuo and McGrath, 2000).

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

  • Two authors: (Kuo and McGrath, 2000)
  • Three or more authors: (Keppler et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal titleInternational Journal of Cross Cultural Management
AbbreviationInt. J. Cross Cult. Manag.
ISSN (print)1470-5958
ISSN (online)1741-2838
ScopeArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Business and International Management
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Cultural Studies

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