How to format your references using the Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management. 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

Clapham, D. E. (2002). Signal transduction. Hot and cold TRP ion channels. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5563), 2228–2229.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cruz, M., & Coontz, R. (2011). Galaxy evolution. A universe of galaxies. Introduction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6039), 169.

A journal article with 3 authors

Childers, S. E., Ciufo, S., & Lovley, D. R. (2002). Geobacter metallireducens accesses insoluble Fe(III) oxide by chemotaxis. Nature, 416(6882), 767–769.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kaina, N., Dupré, M., Lerosey, G., & Fink, M. (2014). Shaping complex microwave fields in reverberating media with binary tunable metasurfaces. Scientific reports, 4, 6693.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quesnel, F. (2014). Scheduling of Large-Scale Virtualized Infrastructures. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rioux, R. (Ed.). (2010). Model Systems in Catalysis: Single Crystals to Supported Enzyme Mimics (1st ed.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Masuko, T., & Souma, K. (2009). Nutritional Physiology of Wild and Domesticated Japanese Sika Deer. In D. R. McCullough, S. Takatsuki, & K. Kaji (Eds.), Sika Deer: Biology and Management of Native and Introduced Populations (pp. 61–82). Tokyo: Springer Japan.

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 Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, November 19). A Bizarre Foam Blob Is Taking Over A Street In California — Here’s What’s Causing It. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/a-bizarre-foam-blob-is-taking-over-a-street-in-california-heres-whats-causing-it/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1996). Transportation and Telecommunications Issue Area: Active Assignments (No. AA-96-18(4)). 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

Winhusen, E. R. (2001). Precambrian Seawater Temperature Analysis Using Oxygen Isotopes from Hamersley Carbonates, Western Australia (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2000, August 20). August 13-19; Czar Beatified. New York Times, p. 42.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clapham 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Clapham 2002; Cruz and Coontz 2011).

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

Two authors: (Cruz and Coontz 2011)
Three or more authors: (Kaina et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management
Abbreviation	Glob. J. Flex. Syst. Manag.
ISSN (print)	0972-2696
ISSN (online)	0974-0198
Scope	Business and International Management Strategy and Management