How to format your references using the International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Management Science and Engineering 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	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

de Vries, S. (2015). Plant science: Precision positioning with peptides. Nature, 522(7557), 424–425.

A journal article with 2 authors

Guerrero, I., & Ruiz i Altaba, A. (2003). Development. Longing for ligand: hedgehog, patched, and cell death. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5634), 774–776.

A journal article with 3 authors

Losos, J. B., Schoener, T. W., & Spiller, D. A. (2004). Predator-induced behaviour shifts and natural selection in field-experimental lizard populations. Nature, 432(7016), 505–508.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ueno, Y., Yamada, K., Yoshida, N., Maruyama, S., & Isozaki, Y. (2006). Evidence from fluid inclusions for microbial methanogenesis in the early Archaean era. Nature, 440(7083), 516–519.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Memming, R. (2015). Semiconductor Electrochemistry. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Bridges, D. S. (2011). Apartness and Uniformity: A Constructive Development (L. S. Vîţă, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dósa, G., & Epstein, L. (2014). The Convergence Time for Selfish Bin Packing. In R. Lavi (Ed.), Algorithmic Game Theory: 7th International Symposium, SAGT 2014, Haifa, Israel, September 30 – October 2, 2014. Proceedings (pp. 37–48). 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 International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, February 12). The Genomes of Darwin’s Finches Have Now All Been Sequenced. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/genomes-darwins-finches-have-now-all-been-sequenced/

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. (1997). Deferred Maintenance: Reporting Requirements and Identified Issues (AIMD-97-103R). 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

Sanchez, G. (2010). An educational program to support Latina teen mothers: A grant proposal project [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

Pilon, M. (2012, March 4). Jewish School Falls in Final. New York Times, SP2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (de Vries, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (de Vries, 2015; Guerrero & Ruiz i Altaba, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Guerrero & Ruiz i Altaba, 2003)
Three authors: (Losos et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Ueno et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management
ISSN (print)	1750-9653
ISSN (online)	1750-9661
Scope	Strategy and Management Information Systems and Management Management Science and Operations Research Engineering (miscellaneous) Mechanical Engineering