How to format your references using the IIMB Management Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IIMB Management Review. 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

McBride, H. (2003). Young scientist: women mentoring women. Nature, 426(6966), 588.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shapiro, L., & Losick, R. (2013). Retrospective. Francois Jacob (1920-2013). Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6135), 939.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu, H., Gao, J., & Zhao, J. (2013). From boron cluster to two-dimensional boron sheet on Cu(111) surface: growth mechanism and hole formation. Scientific Reports, 3, 3238.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Miller-Jensen, K., Janes, K. A., Brugge, J. S., & Lauffenburger, D. A. (2007). Common effector processing mediates cell-specific responses to stimuli. Nature, 448(7153), 604–608.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scheringer, M. (2002). Persistence and Spatial Range of Environmental Chemicals. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Gogolin, A. O. (2014). Lectures on Complex Integration (E. G. Tsitsishvili & A. Komnik, Eds.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Pronzato, L., & Pázman, A. (2013). Asymptotic Properties of M, ML, and Maximum A Posteriori Estimators. In A. Pázman (Ed.), Design of Experiments in Nonlinear Models: Asymptotic Normality, Optimality Criteria and Small-Sample Properties (pp. 79–104). 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 IIMB Management Review.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, June 23). Meet Phronima, The Barrel-Riding Parasite That Inspired The Movie Alien. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/meet-phronima-barrel-riding-parasite-inspired-movie-alien-0/

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. (1992). Attack Warning: Status of the Survivable Communications Integration System (IMTEC-92-61BR). 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

Seegmiller Renner, A. (2017). Empathy Development Through Role Modeling: A Qualitative Study of Instructor Experiences [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

Gustines, G. G. (2015, September 2). Familiar Face on ‘Sesame Street’ Tells of Her Own Childhood. New York Times, C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McBride, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (McBride, 2003; Shapiro & Losick, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Shapiro & Losick, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Miller-Jensen et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	IIMB Management Review
ISSN (print)	0970-3896
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting Economics and Econometrics