How to format your references using the Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing. 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

Friedman, S. D. (2008). Comment on “Magnetic resonance spectroscopy identifies neural progenitor cells in the live human brain.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5889), 640.

A journal article with 2 authors

Takeuchi, T., & Morris, R. G. M. (2014). Neuroscience: Shedding light on a change of mind. Nature, 513(7518), 323–324.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gershenfeld, N., Samouhos, S., & Nordman, B. (2010). Engineering. Intelligent infrastructure for energy efficiency. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5969), 1086–1088.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Haferkamp, I., Schmitz-Esser, S., Linka, N., Urbany, C., Collingro, A., Wagner, M., et al. (2004). A candidate NAD+ transporter in an intracellular bacterial symbiont related to Chlamydiae. Nature, 432(7017), 622–625.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Evans, A. J. (2014). Markets for Managers. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Schumacher, R. (2010). Fetal Radiology: A Diagnostic Atlas. (L. H. Seaver & J. Spranger, Eds.) (2nd Edition.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Formenti, E. (2013). A Survey on m-Asynchronous Cellular Automata. In J. Kari, M. Kutrib, & A. Malcher (Eds.), Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems: 19th International Workshop, AUTOMATA 2013, Gießen, Germany, September 17-19, 2013. Proceedings (pp. 46–66). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2013, December 6). Tattoo-like sensor actively monitors patient. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (2003). Transportation Research: Actions Needed to Improve Coordination and Evaluation of Research (No. GAO-03-500). 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

Theis, J. Y. (2013). Accessing mental health services among Asian American adults: Evidence from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) (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

Pilon, M. (2012, August 7). Gold to British in Jumpoff With Dutch. New York Times, p. B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Friedman 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Friedman 2008; Takeuchi and Morris 2014).

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

Two authors: (Takeuchi and Morris 2014)
Three or more authors: (Haferkamp et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
Abbreviation	J. Intell. Manuf.
ISSN (print)	0956-5515
ISSN (online)	1572-8145
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Software Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering