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

Greaves, M. (2014). Retrospective. Janet Rowley (1925-2013). Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6171), 626.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boyd, R. W., & Gauthier, D. J. (2009). Controlling the velocity of light pulses. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5956), 1074–1077.

A journal article with 3 authors

Green, D. R., Galluzzi, L., & Kroemer, G. (2011). Mitochondria and the autophagy-inflammation-cell death axis in organismal aging. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6046), 1109–1112.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Abbamonte, P., Blumberg, G., Rusydi, A., Gozar, A., Evans, P. G., Siegrist, T., et al. (2004). Crystallization of charge holes in the spin ladder of Sr14Cu24O41. Nature, 431(7012), 1078–1081.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Overhauser, A. (2010). Anomalous Effects in Simple Metals. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Ali, S. T., & Sinha, K. B. (Eds.). (2007). Contributions in Mathematical Physics: A Tribute to Gerard G. Emch. Gurgaon: Hindustan Book Agency.

A chapter in an edited book

De, S., Bhattacharyya, S., Chakraborty, S., & Dutta, P. (2016). Self-supervised Colour Image Segmentation Using Parallel OptiMUSIG (ParaOptiMUSIG) Activation Function. In S. Bhattacharyya, S. Chakraborty, & P. Dutta (Eds.), Hybrid Soft Computing for Multilevel Image and Data Segmentation (pp. 89–123). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Hale, T. (2016, May 15). Extremely Rare Sumatran Rhino Gives Birth At Indonesian Sanctuary. 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. (1986). Selected Information on Bypass of Local Telephone Companies (No. RCED-86-100). 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

Simon-Owens, N. L. (2010). Southern Virginia Higher Education Center: An exploration of factors affecting organizational leadership (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

Wagner, J. (2017, January 14). Mets Sign Six, Including deGrom, Harvey and Familia; Flores Waits for More. New York Times, p. D6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Greaves 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Boyd and Gauthier 2009; Greaves 2014).

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

Two authors: (Boyd and Gauthier 2009)
Three or more authors: (Abbamonte 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