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

Gu, L. (2003). Comment on “Climate and management contributions to recent trends in U.S. agricultural yields.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5625), 1505; author reply 1505.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reddy, G. V., & Meyerowitz, E. M. (2005). Stem-cell homeostasis and growth dynamics can be uncoupled in the Arabidopsis shoot apex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5748), 663–667.

A journal article with 3 authors

Webber, B. L., Le Maitre, D. C., & Kriticos, D. J. (2012). Comment on “Climatic niche shifts are rare among terrestrial plant invaders.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6104), 193; author reply 193.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Park, M., Penick, E. C., Edwards, J. G., Kauer, J. A., & Ehlers, M. D. (2004). Recycling endosomes supply AMPA receptors for LTP. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5692), 1972–1975.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhu, Z., & Nandi, A. K. (2014). Automatic Modulation Classification. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Aitchison, A. (2009). Expert SQL Server 2008 Development (A. Machanic, Ed.). Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Pradhan, J. P., & Das, K. (2016). Exports By SMEs: Subnational Patterns and Determinants. In K. Das (Ed.), Manufacturing Exports from Indian States: Determinants and Policy Imperatives (pp. 71–105). Springer India.

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

Taub, B. (2016, June 7). Fish Can Tell People Apart By Their Faces. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2000). VA Student Financial Aid: Potential Effect of Providing Education Tax Benefit Eligibility to Students Receiving VA Assistance (HEHS-00-40R). 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

Garcia, R. I. (2009). Variable selection for models with missing data [Doctoral dissertation]. University of North Carolina.

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

Slotnik, D. E. (2016, August 24). Joyce Carol Thomas, 78, Novelist and Poet. New York Times, B8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gu, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Gu, 2003; Reddy & Meyerowitz, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Reddy & Meyerowitz, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Park et al., 2004)

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