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

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

Gee H. Origin and evolution of vertebrates. Nature 2015;520:449.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Emery NJ, Clayton NS. Effects of experience and social context on prospective caching strategies by scrub jays. Nature 2001;414:443–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Cottam J, Paerels F, Mendez M. Gravitationally redshifted absorption lines in the X-ray burst spectra of a neutron star. Nature 2002;420:51–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Shriner D, Tekola-Ayele F, Adeyemo A, Rotimi CN. Genome-wide genotype and sequence-based reconstruction of the 140,000 year history of modern human ancestry. Sci Rep 2014;4:6055.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Markley NG. Principles of Differential Equations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.

An edited book

[1]

Memmi G, Blanke U, editors. Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services: 5th International Conference, MobiCASE 2013, Paris, France, November 7-8, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 130. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hirao T, Moriuchi T, Groß A. Bioconjugates to Induce Chirality Organization. In: Hirao T, editor. Functionalized Redox Systems: Synthetic Reactions and Design of π- and Bio-Conjugates, Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2015, p. 111–50.

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 Systems.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. Supercooled Helium Does Things That Don’t Seem Possible. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/supercooled-helium-does-things-dont-seem-possible/ (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. Education and Workforce Data: Challenges in Matching Student and Worker Information Raise Concerns about Longitudinal Data Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Tse J. An explication of the Hilbert basis theorem and its relation to school mathematics. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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]

Kishkovsky S. Russia Inaugurates Book Prize. It’s Big. New York Times 2006:E1.

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 Systems
Abbreviation	J. Manuf. Syst.
ISSN (print)	0278-6125
Scope	Hardware and Architecture Software Control and Systems Engineering Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering