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

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

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 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

Owens, B. (2015). Batteries. Nature, 526(7575), S89.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cincotta, R. P., & Crane, B. B. (2001). Public health. The Mexico City policy and U.S. family planning assistance. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5542), 525–526.

A journal article with 3 authors

Padian, K., de Ricqlès, A. J., & Horner, J. R. (2001). Dinosaurian growth rates and bird origins. Nature, 412(6845), 405–408.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Andreoli, E., Dillon, E. P., Cullum, L., Alemany, L. B., & Barron, A. R. (2014). Cross-linking amine-rich compounds into high performing selective CO2 absorbents. Scientific Reports, 4, 7304.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Korhonen, J., Savolainen, T., & Soininen, J. (2013). Deploying IPv6 in 3GPP Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Sadiku, M. N. O. (2013). Performance Analysis of Computer Networks (S. M. Musa, Ed.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Marianecci, C., Di Marzio, L., Rinaldi, F., Esposito, S., & Carafa, M. (2013). Niosomes. In I. F. Uchegbu, A. G. Schätzlein, W. P. Cheng, & A. Lalatsa (Eds.), Fundamentals of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience (pp. 65–90). Springer.

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 European Management Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2015, July 31). Watch A Tapir Scratch An Itch With His Enormous, Prehensile Penis. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-tapir-scratches-itch/

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. (2007). Data Mining: Early Attention to Privacy in Developing a Key DHS Program Could Reduce Risks (GAO-07-293). 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

Oakes, A. C. (2006). States in Crisis: How Governments Respond to Domestic Unrest [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

Protess, B. (2017, April 12). Law Firm Stocks Ranks With Ex-Federal Officials. New York Times, B5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Owens, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Cincotta & Crane, 2001; Owens, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Cincotta & Crane, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Andreoli et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Management Journal
Abbreviation	Eur. Manag. J.
ISSN (print)	0263-2373
Scope	Strategy and Management