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

Kerr, R. A. (2000). PALEONTOLOGY: Biggest Extinction Hit Land and Sea. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289(5485), 1666b–7b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lucht, M., & Rosskopf, D. (2008). Comment on “Genetically determined differences in learning from errors.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5886), 200; author reply 200.

A journal article with 3 authors

Verbiscer, A. J., Skrutskie, M. F., & Hamilton, D. P. (2009). Saturn’s largest ring. Nature, 461(7267), 1098–1100.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

O’Reilly, C. M., Alin, S. R., Plisnier, P.-D., Cohen, A. S., & McKee, B. A. (2003). Climate change decreases aquatic ecosystem productivity of Lake Tanganyika, Africa. Nature, 424(6950), 766–768.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vignes, A. (2013). Extractive Metallurgy 3. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Biza, I. (2016). Research on Teaching and Learning Mathematics at the Tertiary Level: State-of-the-art and Looking Ahead. (V. Giraldo, R. Hochmuth, A. S. Khakbaz, & C. Rasmussen, Eds.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, X., Liu, Y., & Tu, D. (2014). Surface Modification Chemistry of Lanthanide-Doped Nanoparticles. In Y. Liu & D. Tu (Eds.), Lanthanide-Doped Luminescent Nanomaterials: From Fundamentals to Bioapplications (pp. 59–74). 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 Management Control.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015, April 20). How Soy Fights Breast Cancer. 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. (1992). Space Station: Delays in Dealing With Space Debris May Reduce Safety and Increase Costs (No. IMTEC-92-50). 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

Zometa, E. (2017). Imaging Service Consultations: Imaging Express (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

Kishkovsky, S. (2005, May 28). Moscow Theater Hit Again by Fire. New York Times, p. B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kerr 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kerr 2000; Lucht and Rosskopf 2008).

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

Two authors: (Lucht and Rosskopf 2008)
Three or more authors: (O’Reilly et al. 2003)

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