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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Management Studies (JMS). 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

Ernst, M. O. (2010). 'Behavior. Decisions made better'. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329, 1022–1023.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kong, D. and Ma, C. (2014). 'Acquisition of ephemeral module in roots: a new view and test'. Scientific reports, 4, 5078.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gerstner, W., Sprekeler, H., and Deco, G. (2012). 'Theory and simulation in neuroscience'. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338, 60–65.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Du, Y., Xin, L., Shi, Y., Zhang, T.-H., Wu, N. C., Dai, L., et al. (2018). 'Genome-wide identification of interferon-sensitive mutations enables influenza vaccine design'. Science (New York, N.Y.), 359, 290–296.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shamsuddin, M. (2016). Physical Chemistry of Metallurgical Processes, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Vukasović, M., Maassen, P., Nerland, M., Stensaker, B., Pinheiro, R., and Vabø, A. (Eds.). (2012). Effects of Higher Education Reforms: Change Dynamics. Higher Education Research in the 21st Century Series, Rotterdam: SensePublishers, Vol. 4.

A chapter in an edited book

van de Poel, I. and Nihlén Fahlquist, J. (2013). 'Risk and Responsibility'. In S. Roeser, R. Hillerbrand, P. Sandin, and M. Peterson (Eds.), Essentials of Risk Theory, SpringerBriefs in Philosophy, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 107–143.

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 Studies.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, September 6). 'iPhone 7 Leaks: Apple Expert Forecasts What Features To Expect On New iPhone'. IFLScience. Available At https://www.iflscience.com/technology/iphone-7-leaks-apple-expert-forecasts-what-features-to-expect-on-new-iphone/ (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. (1989). Aviation Safety: Serious Problems Continue to Trouble the Air Traffic Control Work Force.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Wager, L. (2009). Racial differences in the relationship between child externalizing and corporal punishment: The role of other discipline strategiesDoctoral dissertation, .

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

Díaz, M. E. and Neuman, W. (2013, April 27). 'U.S. Filmmaker Held in Venezuela Sought to Show Political Divide, Friends Say'. New York Times, A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ernst, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Ernst, 2010; Kong and Ma, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kong and Ma, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Du et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Management Studies
ISSN (print)	0022-2380
ISSN (online)	1467-6486
Scope	Business and International Management Management of Technology and Innovation Strategy and Management