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]

Lenski RE. Genetics and evolution. Come fly, and leave the baggage behind. Science 2001;294:533–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Stolinsky DC, Rubinstein E. Science’s Conversation with Jiang Zemin. Science 2000;289:548–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Balser DS, Rood RT, Bania TM. Comment on “Deep mixing of 3He: reconciling Big Bang and stellar nucleosynthesis.” Science 2007;317:1170.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Suehiro K, Nakamura Y, Xu S, Uda Y, Matsumura T, Yamaguchi Y, et al. Ecto-domain phosphorylation promotes functional recovery from spinal cord injury. Sci Rep 2014;4:4972.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Spence R. Introductory Circuits. Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Ingram JC, DeClerck F, Rumbaitis del Rio C, editors. Integrating Ecology and Poverty Reduction: The Application of Ecology in Development Solutions. New York, NY: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

AbuZeina D, Elshafei M. Cross-Word Pronunciation Variations. In: Elshafei M, editor. Cross-Word Modeling for Arabic Speech Recognition, Boston, MA: Springer US; 2012, p. 35–46.

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

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Andrew E. UK Lunar Mission Can Commence After Exceeding Crowdfunding Goal. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/space/uk-lunar-mission-can-commence-after-exceeding-crowdfunding-goal/ (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. No Child Left Behind Act: States Face Challenges Measuring Academic Growth That Education’s Initiatives May Help Address. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Llamas AL. ALLTAP Solutions, LLC: A Business Plan. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

Williams J. Classic Words, Fresh Looks. New York Times 2016:BR4.

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