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

Boesch, D., 2012. Deep-water drilling remains a risky business. Nature 484, 289.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brivanlou, A.H., Darnell, J.E., Jr, 2002. Signal transduction and the control of gene expression. Science 295, 813–818.

A journal article with 3 authors

Villegas, C.E.P., Mendonça, P.B., Rocha, A.R., 2014. Optical spectrum of bottom-up graphene nanoribbons: towards efficient atom-thick excitonic solar cells. Sci. Rep. 4, 6579.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ahrens, J., Amselem, E., Cabello, A., Bourennane, M., 2013. Two fundamental experimental tests of nonclassicality with qutrits. Sci. Rep. 3, 2170.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kramer, H., 2013. Angewandte Baudynamik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Valentini, R., Miglietta, F. (Eds.), 2015. The Greenhouse Gas Balance of Italy: An Insight on Managed and Natural Terrestrial Ecosystems, Environmental Science and Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kühne, K., Sadowski, D., 2011. Scandalous Co-determination, in: Brink, A. (Ed.), Corporate Governance and Business Ethics, Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 75–87.

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

O`Callaghan, J., 2016. NASA’s Attempt To Inflate First Expandable Habitat Postponed [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1987. University Funding: Patterns of Distribution of Federal Research Funds to Universities (No. RCED-87-67BR). 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

Sommer, A., 2017. How Experiences Influence and Inform School Principals’ Actions to Further Develop Teachers’ Instructional Practice (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Schwartz, J., 2016. A Hurricane That’s Hard to Predict, Even for a Veteran Storm Watcher. New York Times A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Boesch, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Boesch, 2012; Brivanlou and Darnell, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Brivanlou and Darnell, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Ahrens et al., 2013)

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