How to format your references using the Review of Managerial Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Review of Managerial 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Kelly DP (2012) Medicine. Irisin, light my fire. Science 336:42–43

A journal article with 2 authors

Farrow T, Vedral V (2014) Scale-estimation of quantum coherent energy transport in multiple-minima systems. Sci Rep 4:5520

A journal article with 3 authors

Patek SN, Korff WL, Caldwell RL (2004) Biomechanics: deadly strike mechanism of a mantis shrimp. Nature 428:819–820

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Fujisawa T, Hayashi T, Tomita R, Hirayama Y (2006) Bidirectional counting of single electrons. Science 312:1634–1636

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kompare D (2010) CSI. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Ognjenovic G (ed) (2010) Responsibility in Context: Perspectives. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Edwards KL, Clarke G (2013) SimObesity: Combinatorial Optimisation (Deterministic) Model. In: Tanton R, Edwards K (eds) Spatial Microsimulation: A Reference Guide for Users. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 69–85

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 Review of Managerial Science.

Blog post

Andrew E (2013) New Solar Cell Breaks World Record For Efficiency. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-solar-cell-breaks-world-record-efficiency/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1997) Hispanic Employment: Best Practices Used by Selected Agencies and Companies. 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

Grimpo M (2014) How asthma is related with the rate of influenza vaccination in California’s children. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Kelly C (2007) The Right Look Gives A Home a Second Act. New York Times WE6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kelly 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Kelly 2012; Farrow and Vedral 2014).

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

Two authors: (Farrow and Vedral 2014)
Three or more authors: (Fujisawa et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of Managerial Science
Abbreviation	Rev. Manag. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1863-6683
ISSN (online)	1863-6691
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting