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

Konner M. 2001. Bad words. Nature 411(6839): 743.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dupont S, Pörtner H. 2013. Marine science: get ready for ocean acidification. Nature 498(7455): 429.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dragoi V, Rivadulla C, Sur M. 2001. Foci of orientation plasticity in visual cortex. Nature 411(6833): 80–86.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Song K et al. 2014. Sound pressure level gain in an acoustic metamaterial cavity. Scientific reports 4: 7421.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eylert B. 2006. The Mobile Multimedia Business. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Russell CT (ed). 2009. New Horizons: Reconnaissance of the Pluto-Charon System and the Kuiper Belt. Springer: New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Okaie Y, Nakano T, Hara T, Nishio S. 2016. Controllability of Mobile Bionanosensors. In Target Detection and Tracking by Bionanosensor Networks, SpringerBriefs in Computer Science, Nakano T, Hara T, Nishio S (eds). Springer: Singapore: 53–58.

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

Andrew E. 2015, August 6. Shark Safety Tips: Sorting Out Fact From Fiction. IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/shark-safety-tips-sorting-out-fact-fiction/ [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. 1979. Proposed Relocation of the Offices of the Social Security Administrator and Staff. 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

Lee MY-L. 2009. The intellectual origins of Lin Yutang’s cultural internationalism, 1928–1938. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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 D. 2014, November 16. Man of War. New York Times : BR11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Konner, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Dupont and Pörtner, 2013; Konner, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Dupont and Pörtner, 2013)
Three authors: (Dragoi, Rivadulla, and Sur, 2001)
4 or more authors: (Song et al., 2014)

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