How to format your references using the Leadership and Management in Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Leadership and Management in 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

Folkman, J. 2001. “Retrospective. Jeffrey Isner, 1947-2001.” Science, 294 (5547): 1670.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yao, Z., and O. T. Shafer. 2014. “The Drosophila circadian clock is a variably coupled network of multiple peptidergic units.” Science, 343 (6178): 1516–1520.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wookey, J., J.-M. Kendall, and G. Barruol. 2002. “Mid-mantle deformation inferred from seismic anisotropy.” Nature, 415 (6873): 777–780.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Das, S. K., S. Eder, S. Schauer, C. Diwoky, H. Temmel, B. Guertl, G. Gorkiewicz, K. P. Tamilarasan, P. Kumari, M. Trauner, R. Zimmermann, P. Vesely, G. Haemmerle, R. Zechner, and G. Hoefler. 2011. “Adipose triglyceride lipase contributes to cancer-associated cachexia.” Science, 333 (6039): 233–238.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

DeRosa, T. F. 2008. Advances in Polymer Chemistry and Methods Reported in Recent US Patents. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wagg, D. J., and L. Virgin (Eds.). 2012. Exploiting Nonlinear Behavior in Structural Dynamics. CISM Courses and Lectures. Vienna: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kitamura, C. 2015. “Synthesis, Crystal Structures, and Solid-State Optical Properties of Substituted Tetracenes.” Chemical Science of π-Electron Systems, T. Akasaka, A. Osuka, S. Fukuzumi, H. Kandori, and Y. Aso, eds., 69–87. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

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 Leadership and Management in Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. “Exxon Climate Revelations Are Just Part Of A Long History Of Science Misinformation.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/exxon-climate-revelations-are-just-part-long-history-science-misinformation/.

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

Government Accountability Office. 1993. Federally Funded Research: Controlling Inappropriate Access to Research Results. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Meza, J. 2013. “A community outreach program for Latino immigrant families: Increasing service utilization.” Doctoral dissertation. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Sisario, B. 2017. “Logic Streams Way To Top of Album Chart.” New York Times, May 15, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Folkman 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Folkman 2001; Yao and Shafer 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Yao and Shafer 2014)
Three or more authors: (Das et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Leadership and Management in Engineering
Abbreviation	Lead.. Manag. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1532-6748
ISSN (online)	1943-5630
Scope	Strategy and Management Management Science and Operations Research Civil and Structural Engineering