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

McCabe, H. (2000). France sets up elite Internet school. Nature, 405(6785), 381.

A journal article with 2 authors

Allen, M. R., & Lord, R. (2004). The blame game. Nature, 432(7017), 551–552.

A journal article with 3 authors

Abel, T., Bryan, G. L., & Norman, M. L. (2002). The formation of the first star in the Universe. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5552), 93–98.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Dillehay, T. D., Ramírez, C., Pino, M., Collins, M. B., Rossen, J., & Pino-Navarro, J. D. (2008). Monte Verde: seaweed, food, medicine, and the peopling of South America. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5877), 784–786.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Speight, J. G. (2017). Rules of Thumb for Petroleum Engineers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gussone, N. (2016). Calcium Stable Isotope Geochemistry (A.-D. Schmitt, A. Heuser, F. Wombacher, M. Dietzel, E. Tipper, & M. Schiller, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wagner, I., & Bertacco, V. (2011). Post-Silicon Verification of Multi-Core Processors. In V. Bertacco (Ed.), Post-Silicon and Runtime Verification for Modern Processors (pp. 75–93). Springer US.

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

Fang, J. (2015, July 28). Turtles Seem Surprisingly Unafraid Of Sharks. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/turtles-seem-surprisingly-unafraid-sharks/

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. (1992). Computer Reservation Systems (RCED-92-225R). 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

Mete, R. J. (2010). Can STEM initiatives be social justice oriented: An analysis of urban school reform via smaller learning communities [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Corkery, M., & Protess, B. (2016, December 10). How the Twinkie Made the Superrich Even Richer. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McCabe, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Allen & Lord, 2004; McCabe, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Allen & Lord, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Dillehay et al., 2008)

About the journal

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