How to format your references using the Engineering Management Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Engineering 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
[1]
G. J. Suppes, “Materials design. Simulation as a tool for biopolymers design,” Science, vol. 346, no. 6213, pp. 1055–1056, Nov. 2014.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
B. B. Zhou and S. J. Elledge, “The DNA damage response: putting checkpoints in perspective,” Nature, vol. 408, no. 6811, pp. 433–439, Nov. 2000.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
M. West, J. J. Sánchez, and S. R. McNutt, “Periodically triggered seismicity at Mount Wrangell, Alaska, after the Sumatra earthquake,” Science, vol. 308, no. 5725, pp. 1144–1146, May 2005.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
[1]
W. Martens-Habbena, P. M. Berube, H. Urakawa, J. R. de la Torre, and D. A. Stahl, “Ammonia oxidation kinetics determine niche separation of nitrifying Archaea and Bacteria,” Nature, vol. 461, no. 7266, pp. 976–979, Oct. 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
Center for Chemical Process Safety, Guidelines for Process Safety in Batch Reaction Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999.
An edited book
[1]
A. Neustein and J. A. Markowitz, Eds., Where Humans Meet Machines: Innovative Solutions for Knotty Natural-Language Problems. New York, NY: Springer, 2013.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
S. A. LeBlanc, “Warfare and Human Nature,” in The Evolution of Violence, T. K. Shackelford and R. D. Hansen, Eds., New York, NY: Springer, 2014, pp. 73–97.

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 Engineering Management Journal.

Blog post
[1]
E. Andrew, “Scientists Discover A Potential Anti-HIV Protein In Corals,” IFLScience.

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
[1]
Government Accountability Office, “Planning and Flexibility Are Key to Effectively Deploying Broadband Conduit through Federal Highway Projects,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-12-687R, Jun. 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
P. Weisko, “Wading Tiger Swimming Dragon: A Study on Comparative Indo-Sino Naval Development,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2017.

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
[1]
K. Dinardo, “Tom Allen on His 32-Country Solo Bike Ride and the Video He Made About It,” New York Times, p. TR3, Feb. 23, 2014.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1], [2].
This sentence cites four references [1], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal titleEngineering Management Journal
ISSN (print)0960-7919
ScopeManagement Science and Operations Research
General Engineering

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