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]

Mackenzie D. MATHEMATICS: Taking the Measure of the Wildest Dance on Earth. Science 2000;290:1883–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lum L, Clevers H. Cell biology. The unusual case of Porcupine. Science 2012;337:922–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Cui P, Tang M, Wu Z-X. Message spreading in networks with stickiness and persistence: large clustering does not always facilitate large-scale diffusion. Sci Rep 2014;4:6303.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Clavijo-Baquet S, Boher F, Ziegler L, Martel SI, Estay SA, Bozinovic F. Differential responses to thermal variation between fitness metrics. Sci Rep 2014;4:5349.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kill R. The BRC Global Standard for Food Safety. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Balas VE, Fodor J, Várkonyi-Kóczy AR, editors. New Concepts and Applications in Soft Computing. vol. 417. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Volkmann CK, Tokarski KO, Grünhagen M. Organization and Personnel. In: Tokarski KO, Grünhagen M, editors. Entrepreneurship in a European Perspective: Concepts for the Creation and Growth of New Ventures, Wiesbaden: Gabler; 2010, p. 243–81.

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]

Hale T. An Alligator Has Been Found With A Human Body In Its Mouth In Florida. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/an-alligator-has-been-found-with-a-human-body-in-its-mouth-in-florida/ (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. Problems in the Federal Funding of School Bus Driver Training Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Blasdel ES. A phenomenological study of barriers for women in federal law enforcement. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 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]

Hollander S. From the Ruins of Sarajevo to Stardom at Princeton. New York Times 2000:D4.

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