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

Whipple, K. X. (2014). 'Geophysics. Can erosion drive tectonics?'. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346, 918–919.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hagoort, P. and Levelt, W. J. M. (2009). 'Neuroscience. The speaking brain'. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326, 372–373.

A journal article with 3 authors

Goldman, Y. E., Franzini-Armstrong, C., and Armstrong, C. M. (2012). 'Andrew Fielding Huxley (1917-2012)'. Nature, 486, 474.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tsurumi, A., Dutta, Pranabananda, Dutta, Pranabanada, Shang, R., Yan, S.-J., Sheng, R., et al. (2013). 'Drosophila Kdm4 demethylases in histone H3 lysine 9 demethylation and ecdysteroid signaling'. Scientific reports, 3, 2894.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carter, M. and Bentley, S. P. (2016). Soil Properties and their Correlations, Chichester, UK: John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Chang, A. (Ed.). (2009). Class 3 Hydrolases: EC 3.4.22—3.13. Springer Handbook of Enzymes, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, Second Edition., Vol. S6.

A chapter in an edited book

Tjosvold, D., Wan, P., and Tang, M. M. L. (2016). 'Trust and Managing Conflict: Partners in Developing Organizations'. In P. Elgoibar, M. Euwema, and L. Munduate (Eds.), Building Trust and Constructive Conflict Management in Organizations, Industrial Relations & Conflict Management, Cham: Springer International Publishing, 53–74.

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

Andrew, E. (2015, April 30). 'The MESSENGER Spacecraft Has Crashed Into Mercury'. IFLScience. Available At https://www.iflscience.com/space/final-salute-space-hero-messenger-it-crashes-mercury/ (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. (2011). DHS Science and Technology: Additional Steps Needed to Ensure Test and Evaluation Requirements Are Met.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wasserman, M. M. (2017). Psychological Symptoms, Family Functioning, and Religious Coping in Second- and Third-Generation Holocaust SurvivorsDoctoral 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

Widdicombe, B. (2017, June 24). 'Humming Along With the Dead'. New York Times, ST1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Whipple, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Hagoort and Levelt, 2009; Whipple, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Hagoort and Levelt, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Tsurumi et al., 2013)

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

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