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

Gandy, S. 2011. “Perspective: prevention is better than cure.” Nature, 475 (7355): S15.

A journal article with 2 authors

Carson, M. J., and D. Lo. 2001. “Immunology. The push-me pull-you of T cell activation.” Science, 293 (5530): 618–619.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chandra, F. A., G. Buzi, and J. C. Doyle. 2011. “Glycolytic oscillations and limits on robust efficiency.” Science, 333 (6039): 187–192.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gallavotti, A., Q. Zhao, J. Kyozuka, R. B. Meeley, M. K. Ritter, J. F. Doebley, M. E. Pè, and R. J. Schmidt. 2004. “The role of barren stalk1 in the architecture of maize.” Nature, 432 (7017): 630–635.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stamp, M. 2005. Information Security. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Barnes, I., and K. J. Rudzinski (Eds.). 2006. Environmental Simulation Chambers: Application to Atmospheric Chemical Processes. Nato Science Series: IV: Earth and Environmental Science. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Burred, J. J., M. Haller, S. Jin, A. Samour, and T. Sikora. 2008. “Audio Content Analysis.” Semantic Multimedia and Ontologies: Theory and Applications, Y. Kompatsiaris and P. Hobson, eds., 123–162. London: Springer.

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

Davis, J. 2016. “‘Intelligent’ Slime Mold Can Teach Other Colonies By Fusing With Them.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/intelligent-slime-mold-can-teach-other-colonies-by-fusing-with-them/.

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. 1988. Urban Mass Transportation Administration’s Enforcement of Buy America Provisions of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act. 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

Chryssis, A. N. 2010. “Design and fabrication of high-performance interband cascade tunable external cavity lasers.” Doctoral dissertation. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Wagner, J. 2016. “Rally, and a Favorable Schedule, Lift the Mets’ Hopes.” New York Times, September 10, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gandy 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Carson and Lo 2001; Gandy 2011).

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

Two authors: (Carson and Lo 2001)
Three or more authors: (Gallavotti et al. 2004)

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