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

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

Cook, D. J. 2012. “Computer science. How smart is your home?” Science, 335 (6076): 1579–1581.

A journal article with 2 authors

Read, S. M., and T. Bacic. 2002. “Plant biology. Prime time for cellulose.” Science, 295 (5552): 59–60.

A journal article with 3 authors

Samokhvalov, I. M., N. I. Samokhvalova, and S.-I. Nishikawa. 2007. “Cell tracing shows the contribution of the yolk sac to adult haematopoiesis.” Nature, 446 (7139): 1056–1061.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mattingley, J. B., A. N. Rich, G. Yelland, and J. L. Bradshaw. 2001. “Unconscious priming eliminates automatic binding of colour and alphanumeric form in synaesthesia.” Nature, 410 (6828): 580–582.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhu, Z., and A. K. Nandi. 2014. Automatic Modulation Classification. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kole, C. (Ed.). 2007. Pulses, Sugar and Tuber Crops. Genome Mapping and Molecular Breeding in Plants. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Leal, D. L. 2014. “Immigration Policy Versus Immigration Politics: Latinos and the Reform Debate.” Undecided Nation: Political Gridlock and the Immigration Crisis, T. Payan and E. de la Garza, eds., 79–95. 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 in Engineering.

Blog post

Hale, T. 2017. “Motorcyclists Appear To Come Across A ‘Tribesman’ In Indonesian Forest.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/motorcyclists-appear-to-come-across-a-tribesman-in-indonesian-forest/.

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. 1998. Civil Agencies Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments. 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

Mayberry, D. S. 2017. “Total Relaxation Center, LLC.” Doctoral dissertation. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kenigsberg, B. 2016. “Review: ‘Keeping Up With the Joneses’ Might Not Be Worth It.” New York Times, October 20, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cook 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Cook 2012; Read and Bacic 2002).

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

Two authors: (Read and Bacic 2002)
Three or more authors: (Mattingley et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Management in Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Manage. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0742-597X
ISSN (online)	1943-5479
Scope	Strategy and Management Industrial relations Management Science and Operations Research General Engineering