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

Smaglik, P. (2005). Scientific personalities. Nature, 433(7022), 177.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee, S.-J., & Masliah, E. (2015). Neurodegeneration: Aggregates feel the strain. Nature, 522(7556), 296–297.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, F., Saslow, W. M., & Pokrovsky, V. L. (2013). Phase diagram for magnon condensate in Yttrium Iron Garnet film. Scientific Reports, 3, 1372.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lezec, H. J., Degiron, A., Devaux, E., Linke, R. A., Martin-Moreno, L., Garcia-Vidal, F. J., & Ebbesen, T. W. (2002). Beaming light from a subwavelength aperture. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5582), 820–822.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chatterji, S., & Hedges, P. (2005). Loan Workouts and Debt for Equity Swaps. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Torres, A. (2015). Clinical Management of Bacterial Pneumonia (C. Cillóniz, Ed.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

de Vries, M. J. (2011). Science in the Context of Industrial Application: The Case of the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium. In M. Carrier & A. Nordmann (Eds.), Science in the Context of Application (pp. 47–66). Springer Netherlands.

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

Luntz, S. (2014, December 30). Group Files Lawsuit Against Kansas For Teaching Science In Science Class. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/science-curriculum-back-kansas-courtrooms/

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. (2002). Teacher Training Programs: Activities Underway to Improve Teacher Training, but Information Collected To Assess Accountability Has Limitations (GAO-03-197T). 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

Huber, J. A. (2012). Building an army: A corollary study of group interaction and group productivity [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella 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

Dominus, I. by S. (2014, December 19). ‘You Have to Keep Putting Yourself Out There.’ New York Times, MM14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Lee & Masliah, 2015; Smaglik, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Lee & Masliah, 2015)
Three authors: (Li et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Lezec et al., 2002)

About the journal

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