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

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

Nelson, P.C., 2012. Biochemistry. Spare the (elastic) rod. Science 337, 1045–1046.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, X., Huang, B., 2014. Computational study of in-plane phonon transport in Si thin films. Sci. Rep. 4, 6399.

A journal article with 3 authors

Halley, J.M., Iwasa, Y., Vokou, D., 2013. Comment on “Extinction debt and windows of conservation opportunity in the Brazilian Amazon.” Science 339, 271.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, B., Gao, L., Gao, Y., Deng, Y., Wang, Y., 2014. Controllability and observability analysis for vertex domination centrality in directed networks. Sci. Rep. 4, 5399.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghiani, G., Laporte, G., Musmanno, R., 2005. Introduction to Logistics Systems Planning and Control. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Treschev, D., 2010. Introduction to the Perturbation Theory of Hamiltonian Systems, Springer Monographs in Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Rosencrantz, H., 2013. Policy Objectives and the Functions of Transport Systems, in: Vries, M.J. de, Hansson, S.O., Meijers, A.W.M. (Eds.), Norms in Technology, Philosophy of Engineering and Technology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 67–82.

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 Project Management.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2016. Australia’s Giant Penguins Outlasted Those On Other Continents [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/australias-giant-penguins-outlasted-those-other-continents/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1989. Job Training Partnership Act: Services and Outcomes for Participants With Differing Needs (No. HRD-89-52). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Pratt, J.E., 2014. Investigating educational systems, leadership, and school culture: A holistic approach (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Kenigsberg, B., 2017. Film Series. New York Times C31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nelson, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Nelson, 2012; Wang and Huang, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Huang, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Project Management
Abbreviation	Int. J. Project Manage.
ISSN (print)	0263-7863
Scope	Business and International Management Management of Technology and Innovation