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

Lupski JR (2013) Genetics. Genome mosaicism--one human, multiple genomes. Science 341(6144):358–359.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rignot E, Thomas RH (2002) Mass balance of polar ice sheets. Science 297(5586):1502–1506.

A journal article with 3 authors

Qiu XH, Nazin GV, Ho W (2003) Vibrationally resolved fluorescence excited with submolecular precision. Science 299(5606):542–546.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Husnjak K, Elsasser S, Zhang N, Chen X, Randles L, Shi Y, Hofmann K, Walters KJ, Finley D, Dikic I (2008) Proteasome subunit Rpn13 is a novel ubiquitin receptor. Nature 453(7194):481–488.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fisher HG, Forrest HS, Grossel SS, Huff JE, Muller AR, Noronha JA, Shaw DA, Tilley BJ (1993) Emergency Relief System Design Using DIERS Technology (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ).

An edited book

Rodriguez MA, Walters RS, Burke TW eds. (2013) 60 Years of Survival Outcomes at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (Springer, New York, NY).

A chapter in an edited book

Altić MS (2014) Exploring Along the Rome Meridian: Roger Boscovich and the First Modern Map of the Papal States. Liebenberg E, Collier P, Török ZG, eds. History of Cartography: International Symposium of the ICA, 2012. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg), 71–89.

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 E (2015) Watch These Famous Landmarks Change Over Time Using “Mined” Tourists’ Photos. IFLScience. Retrieved (October 30, 2018), https://www.iflscience.com/technology/watch-these-famous-landmarks-change-over-time-using-mined-tourists-photos/.

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 (1986) Relaxation of the Common Failure Rate Assumption in Modelling Software Reliability (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

Powell FM (2012) A study of the effects of nanoparticle modification on the thermal, mechanical and hygrothermal performance of carbon/vinyl ester composites. Doctoral dissertation. (Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL).

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

Rosenberg E (2016) Louise Rennison, 64, Young-Adult Author. New York Times (March 5).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lupski 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Lupski 2013, Rignot and Thomas 2002).

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

Two authors: (Rignot and Thomas 2002)
Three or more authors: (Husnjak et al. 2008)

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