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

Ohman A (2005) Psychology. Conditioned fear of a face: a prelude to ethnic enmity? Science 309:711–713

A journal article with 2 authors

Barnes MJ, Powrie F (2011) Immunology. The gut’s Clostridium cocktail. Science 331:289–290

A journal article with 3 authors

Baram M, Chatain D, Kaplan WD (2011) Nanometer-thick equilibrium films: the interface between thermodynamics and atomistics. Science 332:206–209

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chan HF, Zhang Y, Ho Y-P, et al (2013) Rapid formation of multicellular spheroids in double-emulsion droplets with controllable microenvironment. Sci Rep 3:3462

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Penner T, Lopez DC (2015) De-Introducing the New Testament. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Lichtfouse E (ed) (2012) Farming for Food and Water Security. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

El-Khawas E (2005) A Changed Policy Environment for US Universities. In: Bascia N, Cumming A, Datnow A, et al. (eds) International Handbook of Educational Policy. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 101–114

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

Fang J (2016) Multi-Cellular Life May Have Begun One Billion Years Earlier Than We Thought. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/large-multi-celled-life-may-have-began-one-billion-years-earlier-we-thought/. 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 (1989) Motor Vehicle Safety: Passive Restraints Needed to Make Light Trucks Safer. 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

Pobat M (2012) It is all in the Mind of the Manager—Using Cognitive Complexity to Explore the Global Mindset—A Comparative Case Study. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Otis J (2017) Raising Grandchildren in a Home That’s Brimming With Love, and Open to All. New York Times A21

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ohman 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Ohman 2005; Barnes and Powrie 2011).

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

Two authors: (Barnes and Powrie 2011)
Three or more authors: (Chan et al. 2013)

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