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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Information 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:

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

Dobson, C. M. (2004). Chemical space and biology. Nature, 432(7019), 824–828.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roberson, E. D., & Mucke, L. (2006). 100 years and counting: prospects for defeating Alzheimer’s disease. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5800), 781–784.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ogata, H., Nishikawa, K., & Lubitz, W. (2015). Hydrogens detected by subatomic resolution protein crystallography in a [NiFe] hydrogenase. Nature, 520(7548), 571–574.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Takeuchi, K., Mohammad, S., Ozaki, T., Morioka, E., Kawaguchi, K., Kim, J., Jeong, B., Hong, J. H., Lee, K. J., & Ikeda, M. (2014). Serotonin-2C receptor involved serotonin-induced Ca²⁺ mobilisations in neuronal progenitors and neurons in rat suprachiasmatic nucleus. Scientific Reports, 4, 4106.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gauthier, M., Andreff, N., & Dombre, E. (2014). Intracorporeal Robotics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chakraborti, S., & Dhalla, N. S. (Eds.). (2013). Proteases in Health and Disease (Vol. 7). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nasruddin, F. A., Harun, M. N., Syahrom, A., Kadir, M. R. A., Omar, A. H., & Öchsner, A. (2016). Stiffness of Badminton Racket. In M. N. Harun, A. Syahrom, M. R. Abdul Kadir, A. H. Omar, & A. Öchsner (Eds.), Finite Element Analysis on Badminton Racket Design Parameters (pp. 33–41). 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 International Journal of Information Management.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015, June 5). Pluto’s Moons Are In “Absolute Chaos.” IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/moons-chaos/

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. (2016). Federally Leased Vehicles: Agencies Should Strengthen Assessment Processes to Reduce Underutilized Vehicles (GAO-16-136). 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

McKelvey, D. M. (2008). Relationships between attitudes of school-based administrators and inclusion practices of students with autism/Asperger’s syndrome [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

de la MERCED, M. J. (2017, July 12). Oscar Health and Humana Team Up in Small-Firm Venture. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dobson, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Dobson, 2004; Roberson & Mucke, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Roberson & Mucke, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Takeuchi et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Information Management
Abbreviation	Int. J. Inf. Manage.
ISSN (print)	0268-4012
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Information Systems Library and Information Sciences