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

Fletcher, J. D. (2009). Education and training technology in the military. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5910), 72–75.

A journal article with 2 authors

Arnold, D. H., & Johnston, A. (2003). Motion-induced spatial conflict. Nature, 425(6954), 181–184.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhong, Y., Zhang, L., & Su, D. (2000). Collaborations tailored for bioinformatics projects. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5499), 2074a.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bagchi, J., Durret, F., Neto, G. B. L., & Paul, S. (2006). Giant ringlike radio structures around galaxy cluster Abell 3376. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5800), 791–794.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Aksamija, A. (2016). Integrating Innovation in Architecture. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Linsen, L., Hagen, H., & Hamann, B. (Eds.). (2008). Visualization in Medicine and Life Sciences. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cuadras, C. M. (2008). Distance Based Association and Multi-Sample Tests for General Multivariate Data. In R. Minguez, J.-M. Sarabia, N. Balakrishnan, & B. C. Arnold (Eds.), Advances in Mathematical and Statistical Modeling (pp. 61–71). Boston, MA: Birkhäuser.

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. (2014, October 2). New Crystal Can Absorb Huge Amounts Of Oxygen And Store It For Later. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/new-material-absorbs-oxygen-stores-it-later/. 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. (1984). Studies of U.S. Universities’ Research Equipment Needs Inconclusive (No. RCED-84-105). 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

Aggarwal, E. (2012). South Asian women’s attitudes toward help-seeking behaviors (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

Loomis, S. H. (2014, January 7). Making the Restaurant Part of the Family. New York Times, p. D7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fletcher 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Arnold and Johnston 2003; Fletcher 2009).

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

Two authors: (Arnold and Johnston 2003)
Three or more authors: (Bagchi et al. 2006)

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