How to format your references using the Journal of Manufacturing Processes citation style

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

[1]

Gershon D. Structural genomics--from cottage industry to industrial revolution. Nature 2000;408:273–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Futahashi R, Fujiwara H. Juvenile hormone regulates butterfly larval pattern switches. Science 2008;319:1061.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kasuya A, Sakabe J-I, Tokura Y. Potential application of in vivo imaging of impaired lymphatic duct to evaluate the severity of pressure ulcer in mouse model. Sci Rep 2014;4:4173.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ge S, Goh ELK, Sailor KA, Kitabatake Y, Ming G-L, Song H. GABA regulates synaptic integration of newly generated neurons in the adult brain. Nature 2006;439:589–93.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Safonov VO. Trustworthy Cloud Computing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Kaski JC, Eslick GD, Bairey Merz CN, editors. Chest Pain with Normal Coronary Arteries: A Multidisciplinary Approach. London: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Zhao Y, Qiu W. The Potential of Social Media for Students with Disabilities. In: Gray T, Silver-Pacuilla H, editors. Breakthrough Teaching and Learning: How Educational and Assistive Technologies are Driving Innovation, New York, NY: Springer; 2011, p. 71–86.

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 Manufacturing Processes.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Bizarre Caterpillar Shoots Tentacles From Its Back. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/funky-caterpillar-shoots-tentacles-its-back/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. NSF Review: Review Process for the National Science Foundation’s Science and Engineering Pipeline Study. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Kalinec-Craig C. A case study of four Latina/o pre-service teachers in learning to teach mathematics for understanding and integrate a child’s out-of-school mathematical knowledge and experiences. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, 2012.

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

[1]

Southall A. Makeover Set for Police Building at Heart of a Sleeker Times Sq. New York Times 2016:A20.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Manufacturing Processes
Abbreviation	J. Manuf. Process.
ISSN (print)	1526-6125
Scope	Strategy and Management Management Science and Operations Research Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering