How to format your references using the International Journal of Information Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Information 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	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

Siegal, M. (2004). Neuroscience. Signposts to the essence of language. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5691), 1720–1721.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lu, T., & Wheeler, S. E. (2015). Organic chemistry. Harnessing weak interactions for enantioselective catalysis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6223), 719–720.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hinde, C. A., Johnstone, R. A., & Kilner, R. M. (2010). Parent-offspring conflict and coadaptation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5971), 1373–1376.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Da Costa Dias, B., Jovanovic, K., Gonsalves, D., Moodley, K., Reusch, U., Knackmuss, S., Weinberg, M. S., Little, M., & Weiss, S. F. T. (2014). The 37kDa/67kDa laminin receptor acts as a receptor for Aβ42 internalization. Scientific Reports, 4, 5556.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Port, M. (2008). Beyond Booked Solid. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Badonnel, R., Koch, R., Pras, A., Drašar, M., & Stiller, B. (Eds.). (2016). Management and Security in the Age of Hyperconnectivity: 10th IFIP WG 6.6 International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management, and Security, AIMS 2016, Munich, Germany, June 20-23, 2016, Proceedings (Vol. 9701). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Seye, C. I., & Weisman, G. A. (2010). The P2Y2 Nucleotide Receptor in Vascular Inflammation and Angiogenesis. In E. Gerasimovskaya & E. Kaczmarek (Eds.), Extracellular ATP and Adenosine as Regulators of Endothelial Cell Function: Implications for Health and Disease (pp. 57–72). Springer Netherlands.

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 International Journal of Information Management.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017, May 31). A Giant Ringed Planet Is Likely The Cause Of Mysterious Eclipses. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/a-giant-ringed-planet-is-likely-the-cause-of-mysterious-eclipses/

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). Aviation Security: Cost Estimates Related to TSA Funding of Checked Baggage Screening Systems at Los Angeles and Ontario Airports (GAO-07-445). 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

Burgner, J. (2010). Bullying prevention: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Koblin, J. (2017, September 4). A Show That Scares With Politics, Not Just Killer Clowns. 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 (Siegal, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Lu & Wheeler, 2015; Siegal, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Lu & Wheeler, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Da Costa Dias et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Information Management
Abbreviation	Int. J. Inf. Manage.
ISSN (print)	0268-4012
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Information Systems Library and Information Sciences