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]

Krug RM. Influenza: An RNA-synthesizing machine. Nature 2014;516:338–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Walter P, Ron D. The unfolded protein response: from stress pathway to homeostatic regulation. Science 2011;334:1081–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gambardella A, Prezioso M, Cavallini M. Tunnel conductivity switching in a single nanoparticle-based nano floating gate memory. Sci Rep 2014;4:4196.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ray B, Henaff M, Ma S, Efstathiadis E, Peskin ER, Picone M, et al. Information content and analysis methods for multi-modal high-throughput biomedical data. Sci Rep 2014;4:4411.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

American Counseling Association. The ACA Encyclopedia of Counseling. Alexandria, VA, USA: American Counseling Association; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Borcsa M, Rober P, editors. Research Perspectives in Couple Therapy: Discursive Qualitative Methods. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kurimoto A. Structure and Governance of Networks: Cases of Franchising and Co-operative Chains. In: Hendrikse G, Tuunanen M, Windsperger J, Cliquet G, editors. Strategy and Governance of Networks: Cooperatives, Franchising, and Strategic Alliances, Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD; 2008, p. 63–82.

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]

O`Callaghan J. NASA Still Plans To Practice Saving Earth From An Asteroid, Even Without ESA’s Help. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-still-plans-to-practice-saving-earth-from-an-asteroid-even-without-esas-help/ (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. Transportation Services: Better Dissemination and Oversight of DOT’s Guidance Could Lead to Improved Access for Limited English-Proficient Populations (Chinese Version). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Baxter JM. Enantioselective Mannich-type Reactions Promoted by Strained Silane Lewis Acids: Selective Generation of Two Contiguous Stereocenters and Entry into a Novel Class of Pyrrolidines. Doctoral dissertation. Columbia University, 2010.

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]

Cooper BM. The Tailor of 125th Street. New York Times 2017:ST1.

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

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