How to format your references using the Journal of International Management citation style

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

Harrison, T., 2010. Anthropology. Apes among the tangled branches of human origins. Science 327, 532–534.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stechmann, A., Cavalier-Smith, T., 2002. Rooting the eukaryote tree by using a derived gene fusion. Science 297, 89–91.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bode, F., Sachs, F., Franz, M.R., 2001. Tarantula peptide inhibits atrial fibrillation. Nature 409, 35–36.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bartels, R., Backus, S., Zeek, E., Misoguti, L., Vdovin, G., Christov, I.P., Murnane, M.M., Kapteyn, H.C., 2000. Shaped-pulse optimization of coherent emission of high-harmonic soft X-rays. Nature 406, 164–166.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Poikselkä, M., Mayer, G., Khartabil, H., Niemi, A., 2004. The IMS. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Pisla, D., Ceccarelli, M., Husty, M., Corves, B. (Eds.), 2010. New Trends in Mechanism Science: Analysis and Design, Mechanisms and Machine Science. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Arias, A., Petersen, J., van Engelen, A., Tang, H., Selwaness, M., Witteman, J.C.M., van der Lugt, A., Niessen, W., de Bruijne, M., 2013. Carotid Artery Wall Segmentation by Coupled Surface Graph Cuts, in: Menze, B.H., Langs, G., Lu, L., Montillo, A., Tu, Z., Criminisi, A. (Eds.), Medical Computer Vision. Recognition Techniques and Applications in Medical Imaging: Second International MICCAI Workshop, MCV 2012, Nice, France, October 5, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 38–47.

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 International Management.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2016. Evidence For Ancient Mega-Tsunamis Discovered On Mars [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, 2001. Proposed Alliance Between American Airlines and British Airways Raises Competition Concerns and Public Interest Issues (No. GAO-02-293R). 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

Conti, A.I., 2012. Dirty hands, virtue ethics, and consequentialism (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

Parker, A., Sanger, D.E., 2016. Trump Eggs on Moscow in Hack of Clinton Email. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Harrison, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Harrison, 2010; Stechmann and Cavalier-Smith, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Stechmann and Cavalier-Smith, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Bartels et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of International Management
Abbreviation	J. Int. Manag.
ISSN (print)	1075-4253
Scope	Business and International Management Strategy and Management Finance