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

Marx, V., 2013. Neurobiology: Brain mapping in high resolution. Nature 503, 147–152.

A journal article with 2 authors

Domkin, V., Chabes, A., 2014. Phosphines are ribonucleotide reductase reductants that act via C-terminal cysteines similar to thioredoxins and glutaredoxins. Sci. Rep. 4, 5539.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhu, B.O., Zhao, J., Feng, Y., 2013. Active impedance metasurface with full 360° reflection phase tuning. Sci. Rep. 3, 3059.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Brand, A., Behrend, O., Marquardt, T., McAlpine, D., Grothe, B., 2002. Precise inhibition is essential for microsecond interaural time difference coding. Nature 417, 543–547.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahmad, A., 2005. Wireless and Mobile Data Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Smith, W.R., Stahel, P.F. (Eds.), 2014. Management of Musculoskeletal Injuries in the Trauma Patient. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, X., Xie, Z., Guan, X., 2011. Risk Assessment Based on the Life Cycle of Virtual Enterprise, in: Dai, M. (Ed.), Innovative Computing and Information: International Conference, ICCIC 2011, Wuhan, China, September 17-18, 2011. Proceedings, Part I, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 21–28.

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

Luntz, S., 2015. Scientists Find Vessels That Connect Immune System And Brain [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, 2005. Digital Broadcast Television Transition: Several Challenges Could Arise in Administering a Subsidy Program for DTV Equipment (No. GAO-05-623T). 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

Valdovinos, G., 2012. Entre familia (among family): A parent training and social support program for Latino families. A grant proposal (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

Walsh, M.W., 2015. Puerto Rico Misses First Debt Payment. New York Times B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marx, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Domkin and Chabes, 2014; Marx, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Domkin and Chabes, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Brand et al., 2002)

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