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

Sibley LD (2004) Intracellular parasite invasion strategies. Science 304(5668):248–253.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brittain SD, Rettig TW (2002) CO and H(3)(+) in the protoplanetary disk around the star HD141569. Nature 418(6893):57–59.

A journal article with 3 authors

Penner JE, Dong X, Chen Y (2004) Observational evidence of a change in radiative forcing due to the indirect aerosol effect. Nature 427(6971):231–234.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Crook R, Graham AC, Smith CG, Farrer I, Beere HE, Ritchie DA (2003) Erasable electrostatic lithography for quantum components. Nature 424(6950):751–754.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yamarone R (2012) The Trader’s Guide to Key Economic Indicators (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ).

An edited book

Stackowiak R (2015) Big Data and the Internet of Things: Enterprise Information Architecture for a New Age Licht A, Mantha V, Nagode L, eds. (Apress, Berkeley, CA).

A chapter in an edited book

Jakhu RS, Pelton JN (2014) The Global Legal Guidelines Governing Satellite Deployment. Pelton JN, ed. Small Satellites and Their Regulation. SpringerBriefs in Space Development. (Springer, New York, NY), 43–48.

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

Andrew D (2016) Kids Who Watch Porn Won’t Necessarily Turn Into Sex Offenders. IFLScience. Retrieved (October 30, 2018), https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/kids-who-watch-porn-wont-necessarily-turn-into-sex-offenders/.

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 (2004) Data Mining: Federal Efforts Cover a Wide Range of Uses (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

Stachowiak D (2011) How executive coaches use the results of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to develop their coachees. Doctoral dissertation. (Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA).

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

Brantley B (2016) The Fine Art of Using Love as a Weapon. New York Times (October 31).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sibley 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Brittain and Rettig 2002, Sibley 2004).

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

Two authors: (Brittain and Rettig 2002)
Three or more authors: (Crook et al. 2003)

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