How to format your references using the Academy of Management Perspectives citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Academy of Management Perspectives. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Lang, T. (2011). Advancing global health research through digital technology and sharing data. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6018), 714–717.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shchukin, D., & Möhwald, H. (2013). Materials science. A coat of many functions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6153), 1458–1459.

A journal article with 3 authors

Andreae, M. O., Jones, C. D., & Cox, P. M. (2005). Strong present-day aerosol cooling implies a hot future. Nature, 435(7046), 1187–1190.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kassen, R., Buckling, A., Bell, G., & Rainey, P. B. (2000). Diversity peaks at intermediate productivity in a laboratory microcosm. Nature, 406(6795), 508–512.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pelto, M. (2017). Recent Climate Change Impacts on Mountain Glaciers. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bolc, L., Tadeusiewicz, R., Chmielewski, L. J., & Wojciechowski, K. (Eds.). (2010). Computer Vision and Graphics: International Conference, ICCVG 2010, Warsaw, Poland, September 20-22, 2010, Proceedings, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 6375). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Perfilieva, I. (2015). A New Model of a Fuzzy Associative Memory. In V.-N. Huynh, M. Inuiguchi, & T. Demoeux (Eds.), Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making: 4th International Symposium, IUKM 2015, Nha Trang, Vietnam, October 15-17, 2015, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 32–42). Cham: 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 Academy of Management Perspectives.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, August 22). 5 Of The Biggest Myths And Misconceptions About Zika, Debunked. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/5-of-the-biggest-myths-and-misconceptions-about-zika-debunked/

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. (1974). What Is the Role of Federal Assistance for Vocational Education? ( No. MWD-75-31). Washington, DC: 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

Ellis, G. S. (2012). Compound-Specific Stable Isotopic Analysis of Protein Amino Acids: Ecological Applications in Modern and Ancient Systems (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Steel, E., & de la MERCED, M. J. (2017, July 27). Discovery Closes In on Acquiring Scripps Networks as Viacom Exits Competition. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lang, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Lang, 2011; Shchukin & Möhwald, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Shchukin & Möhwald, 2013)
Three authors: (Andreae, Jones, & Cox, 2005)
6 or more authors: (Kassen, Buckling, Bell, & Rainey, 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Academy of Management Perspectives
Abbreviation	Acad. Manag. Perspect.
ISSN (print)	1558-9080
ISSN (online)	1943-4529
Scope	Business and International Management Marketing Strategy and Management