How to format your references using the The International Journal of Management Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The International Journal of Management Education. 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

Markham, J. (2014). Rare species occupy uncommon niches. Scientific Reports, 4, 6012.

A journal article with 2 authors

Popp, M. W., & Maquat, L. E. (2015). RNA. A TRICK’n way to see the pioneer round of translation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6228), 1316–1317.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, Z., Xu, B., & Zhou, H.-J. (2014). Social cycling and conditional responses in the Rock-Paper-Scissors game. Scientific Reports, 4, 5830.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Reichle, R., Leibfried, D., Knill, E., Britton, J., Blakestad, R. B., Jost, J. D., Langer, C., Ozeri, R., Seidelin, S., & Wineland, D. J. (2006). Experimental purification of two-atom entanglement. Nature, 443(7113), 838–841.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Halloran, M., & Thies, C. (2012). The Social Media Handbook for Financial Advisors. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Eriksson, J., Gilek, M., & Rudén, C. (Eds.). (2010). Regulating Chemical Risks: European and Global Challenges. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Ugalde, A., & Homedes, N. (2014). Politics and Clinical Trials in the Province of Cordoba. In N. Homedes & A. Ugalde (Eds.), Clinical Trials in Latin America: Where Ethics and Business Clash (pp. 113–129). Springer International Publishing.

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 The International Journal of Management Education.

Blog post

Evans, K. (2016, August 17). The Edge Of The Universe Is Closer Than Scientists Previously Thought. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-edge-of-the-universe-is-closer-than-scientists-previously-thought/

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. (1996). Weather Forecasting: Recommendations to Address New Weather Processing System Development Risks (AIMD-96-74). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Urshel, C. L. (2006). The Technical Adequacy of Standards-Derived Curriculum-Based Measures for Reading Comprehension and Math Computation in Middle School [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cincinnati.

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

Wilson, M. (2017, August 14). Sentencing Will Provide Coda for Television Producer’s Real Crime Drama. 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 (Markham, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Markham, 2014; Popp & Maquat, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Popp & Maquat, 2015)
Three authors: (Wang et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Reichle et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	The International Journal of Management Education
ISSN (print)	1472-8117
Scope	Strategy and Management Education