How to format your references using the Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering citation style

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

Simonton, D. K., 2013, “After Einstein: Scientific Genius Is Extinct,” Nature, 493(7434), p. 602.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Jones, J. H., and Handcock, M. S., 2003, “Social Networks: Sexual Contacts and Epidemic Thresholds,” Nature, 423(6940), pp. 605–6; discussion 606.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ambrose, K. V., Koppenhöfer, A. M., and Belanger, F. C., 2014, “Horizontal Gene Transfer of a Bacterial Insect Toxin Gene into the Epichloë Fungal Symbionts of Grasses,” Sci. Rep., 4, p. 5562.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Dutton, Z., Budde, M., Slowe, C., and Hau, L. V., 2001, “Observation of Quantum Shock Waves Created with Ultra- Compressed Slow Light Pulses in a Bose-Einstein Condensate,” Science, 293(5530), pp. 663–668.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Theodore, L., and Kunz, R. G., 2005, Nanotechnology: Environmental Implications and Solutions, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Demetrikopoulos, M. K., and Pecore, J. L., eds., 2016, Interplay of Creativity and Giftedness in Science, SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Balmer, A. S., Bulpin, K., and Molyneux-Hodgson, S., 2016, “Enacting Ontologies, Failure and Time,” Synthetic Biology: A Sociology of Changing Practices, K. Bulpin, and S. Molyneux-Hodgson, eds., Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 151–190.

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 Science and Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew, D., 2017, “Yes There’s Hope, But Treating Spinal Injuries With Stem Cells Is Not A Reality Yet,” IFLScience [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/yes-theres-hope-but-treating-spinal-injuries-with-stem-cells-is-not-a-reality-yet/. [Accessed: 30-Oct-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, 1978, U.S. Economic Aid for the West Bank and Gaza, ID-78-35, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Shelby, K. R., 2013, “Systems Engineering Knowledge Asset (SEKA) Management for Higher Performing Engineering Teams: People, Process and Technology toward Effective Knowledge-Workers,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University.

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]

Crow, K., 2001, “Trying to Protect A Zigzag Piece Of a Famed Circle,” New York Times, p. 145.

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 Science and Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Manuf. Sci. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1087-1357
ISSN (online)	1528-8935
Scope	Computer Science Applications Control and Systems Engineering Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Mechanical Engineering

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