How to format your references using the Strategic Management Journal citation style

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

Perkel JM. 2015. Lab-inventory management: Time to take stock. Nature 524(7563): 125–126.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang X, Ha T. 2013. Defining single molecular forces required to activate integrin and notch signaling. Science (New York, N.Y.) 340(6135): 991–994.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meng F, McGrath KP, Hoveyda AH. 2014. Multifunctional organoboron compounds for scalable natural product synthesis. Nature 513(7518): 367–374.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Guo M et al. 2009. Paradox of mistranslation of serine for alanine caused by AlaRS recognition dilemma. Nature 462(7274): 808–812.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kriegel J. 2016. Unfairly Labeled. John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gaaloul K, Schmidt R, Nurcan S, Guerreiro S, Ma Q (eds). 2015. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling: 16th International Conference, BPMDS 2015, 20th International Conference, EMMSAD 2015, Held at CAiSE 2015, Stockholm, Sweden, June 8-9, 2015, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 214.

A chapter in an edited book

Lambert L, Keyomarsi K. 2007. Cell Cycle Deregulation in Breast Cancer: Insurmountable Chemoresistance or Achilles’ Heel? In Breast Cancer Chemosensitivity, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, Yu D, Hung M-C (eds). Springer: New York, NY: 52–69.

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 Strategic Management Journal.

Blog post

Andrews R. 2016, July 15. This Incredible 50-Million-Year-Old Amber Shows The Moment An Insect Literally Jumped Out Of Its Skin. IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/this-incredible-50millionyearold-amber-shows-the-moment-an-insect-literally-jumped-out-of-its-skin/ [30 October 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. 2007. Passenger Rail Security: Federal Strategy and Enhanced Coordination Needed to Prioritize and Guide Security Efforts. 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

Wickramage AS. 2013. Analysis of Magnaporthe oryzae homologs of Histoplasma capsulatum RYP genes. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Kenigsberg B. 2017, August 17. Liza, Liza, Skies Are Grey. New York Times : C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Perkel, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Perkel, 2015; Wang and Ha, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Ha, 2013)
Three authors: (Meng, McGrath, and Hoveyda, 2014)
4 or more authors: (Guo et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Strategic Management Journal
Abbreviation	Strategic Manage. J.
ISSN (print)	0143-2095
ISSN (online)	1097-0266
Scope	Business and International Management Strategy and Management