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

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

Eliopoulos, A. G. (2008). Cell signaling. “Make and brake” in signaling. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5889), 648–649.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wenseleers, T., & Ratnieks, F. L. W. (2006). Enforced altruism in insect societies. Nature, 444(7115), 50.

A journal article with 3 authors

Robison, B. H., Reisenbichler, K. R., & Sherlock, R. E. (2005). Giant larvacean houses: rapid carbon transport to the deep sea floor. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5728), 1609–1611.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Caputi, L., Franke, J., Farrow, S. C., Chung, K., Payne, R. M. E., Nguyen, T.-D., et al. (2018). Missing enzymes in the biosynthesis of the anticancer drug vinblastine in Madagascar periwinkle. Science (New York, N.Y.), 360(6394), 1235–1239.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Arifin, S. M. N., Madey, G. R., & Collins, F. H. (2016). Spatial Agent-Based Simulation Modeling in Public Health. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Casoli, F. (2007). The New Worlds: Extrasolar Planets. (T. Encrenaz, Ed.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ahlbrecht, T., Dix, J., Köster, M., Kraus, P., & M”uller, J. P. (2014). A Scalable Runtime Platform for Multiagent-Based Simulation. In F. Dalpiaz, J. Dix, & M. B. van Riemsdijk (Eds.), Engineering Multi-Agent Systems: Second International Workshop, EMAS 2014, Paris, France, May 5-6, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 81–102). 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 Management Control.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2017, June 12). Here’s What Actually Happened At Roswell In 1947. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/heres-what-actually-happened-at-roswell-in-1947/. 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. (2004). National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Significant Actions Needed to Address Long-standing Financial Management Problems (No. GAO-04-754T). 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

Green, R. B. (2013). Bluetooth telemetry system for a wearable electrocardiogram (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Crow, K. (2001, January 21). An Enigmatic Golden Trophy Evokes a Saloon’s Good Times. New York Times, p. 147.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eliopoulos 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Eliopoulos 2008; Wenseleers and Ratnieks 2006).

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

Two authors: (Wenseleers and Ratnieks 2006)
Three or more authors: (Caputi et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Management Control
Abbreviation	J. Manag. Contr.
ISSN (print)	2191-4761
ISSN (online)	2191-477X
Scope	Management Information Systems Management of Technology and Innovation Strategy and Management Management Science and Operations Research