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

Lavé, J. (2015). Earth science: Landscape inversion by stream piracy. Nature, 520(7548), 442–444.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mellman, I., & Clausen, B. E. (2010). Immunology. Beta-catenin balances immunity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5993), 767–769.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ishikawa, H., Ma, Z., & Barber, G. N. (2009). STING regulates intracellular DNA-mediated, type I interferon-dependent innate immunity. Nature, 461(7265), 788–792.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Giraldo, O., Brock, S. L., Marquez, M., Suib, S. L., Hillhouse, H., & Tsapatsis, M. (2000). Spontaneous formation of inorganic helices. Nature, 405(6782), 38.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lieberman, N. P. (2012). Troubleshooting Vacuum Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ren, B. (2012). Modeling, Control and Coordination of Helicopter Systems. (S. S. Ge, C. Chen, C.-H. Fua, & T. H. Lee, Eds.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jiang, S., Lowd, D., Kafle, S., & Dou, D. (2016). Ontology Matching with Knowledge Rules. In A. Hameurlain, J. Küng, R. Wagner, & Q. Chen (Eds.), Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems XXVIII: Special Issue on Database- and Expert-Systems Applications (pp. 75–95). 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

Davis, J. (2017, May 11). Modern HIV Drugs Give Young People “Near Normal” Life Expectancy. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/modern-hiv-drugs-give-young-people-near-normal-life-expectancy/. 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. (1975). Critical Need for a Better System for Adjusting Top Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries (No. FPCD-75-140). 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

Smith, K. M. (2008). Meanings of “design” in instructional technology: A conceptual analysis based on the field’s foundational literature (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Feeney, K. (2010, October 10). Southern Barbecue, Up North. New York Times, p. NJ13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lavé 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Lavé 2015; Mellman and Clausen 2010).

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

Two authors: (Mellman and Clausen 2010)
Three or more authors: (Giraldo et al. 2000)

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

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