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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Management Reviews (IJMR). 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

Manners, I. (2001). Materials science. Putting metals into polymers, Science (New York, N.Y.), 294, pp. 1664–1666.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stelter, P. and Ulrich, H. D. (2003). Control of spontaneous and damage-induced mutagenesis by SUMO and ubiquitin conjugation, Nature, 425, pp. 188–191.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jouvenet, N., Bieniasz, P. D. and Simon, S. M. (2008). Imaging the biogenesis of individual HIV-1 virions in live cells, Nature, 454, pp. 236–240.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Lu, Y., Yao, J., Yu, J., Wei, Q. and Cao, X. (2014). The association between abnormal microRNA-10b expression and cancer risk: a meta-analysis, Scientific Reports, 4, pp. 7498.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Geier, R., Angelmaier, V., Graubner, C.-A. and Kohoutek, J. (2017). Integrale Brücken. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Boecker, H., Hillman, C. H., Scheef, L. and Strüder, H. K. (eds.) (2012). Functional Neuroimaging in Exercise and Sport Sciences. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

McTear, M. (2008). Handling Miscommunication: Why Bother? In Dybkjær, L. and Minker, W. (eds),Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 101–122.

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 Management Reviews.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, July 24). Survey Finds 361 New Bird Species - And A Quarter Are Already Threatened, IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/survey-finds-361-new-bird-species-and-quarter-are-already-threatened/ [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 (1978). Subcontractor’s Problems With Prime Contractor at Kennedy Space Center (No. B-192017). 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

Chatterji, S. (2016). A novel agent-based dynamic load balancing model for cloud networks (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Oestreich, J. R. (2016). A Festival to Re-energize Your Inner Self, New York Times, 17 October, p. C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Manners, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Manners, 2001; Stelter and Ulrich, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Stelter and Ulrich, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Lu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Management Reviews
Abbreviation	Int. J. Manag. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1460-8545
ISSN (online)	1468-2370
Scope	Management of Technology and Innovation Strategy and Management General Decision Sciences