How to format your references using the Management Science citation style

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

Goodby JW (2004) Obituary: Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar (1930-2004). Nature 428(6986):906.

A journal article with 2 authors

Watanabe N, Mitchison TJ (2002) Single-molecule speckle analysis of actin filament turnover in lamellipodia. Science 295(5557):1083–1086.

A journal article with 3 authors

Markos C, Kubat I, Bang O (2014) Hybrid polymer photonic crystal fiber with integrated chalcogenide glass nanofilms. Sci. Rep. 4:6057.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kolbe JJ, Glor RE, Rodríguez Schettino L, Lara AC, Larson A, Losos JB (2004) Genetic variation increases during biological invasion by a Cuban lizard. Nature 431(7005):177–181.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Feldmann D (2015) Social Movements For Good (John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ).

An edited book

Lepora NF, Mura A, Mangan M, Verschure PFMJ, Desmulliez M, Prescott TJ eds. (2016) Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems: 5th International Conference, Living Machines 2016, Edinburgh, UK, July 19-22, 2016. Proceedings (Springer International Publishing, Cham).

A chapter in an edited book

Zheng H, Yang G (2012) Investigation of Aerodynamic Performance of High-Speed Train by Detached Eddy Simulation. Ni YQ, Ye XW, eds. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on High-Speed and Intercity Railways: Volume 2. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg), 31–39.

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 Management Science.

Blog post

Luntz S (2014) Why Does Matter Exceed Antimatter? IFLScience. Retrieved (October 30, 2018), https://www.iflscience.com/physics/why-does-matter-exceed-antimatter/.

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 (2013) Race To The Top: States Implementing Teacher and Principal Evaluation Systems despite Challenges (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

Nikolova S (2010) Health insurance transitions of SCHIP-eligible children in response to higher public premiums. Doctoral dissertation. (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC).

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

Koblin J (2017) Half a Million Viewers For ‘Twin Peaks’ Return. New York Times (May 23).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goodby 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Goodby 2004, Watanabe and Mitchison 2002).

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

Two authors: (Watanabe and Mitchison 2002)
Three or more authors: (Kolbe et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Management Science
Abbreviation	Manage. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0025-1909
ISSN (online)	1526-5501
Scope	Strategy and Management Management Science and Operations Research