How to format your references using the International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management citation style

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

Nadeem, M. (2014). Unconditionally secure commitment in position-based quantum cryptography. Scientific Reports, 4, 6774.

A journal article with 2 authors

Diaz, R. J., & Rosenberg, R. (2008). Spreading dead zones and consequences for marine ecosystems. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5891), 926–929.

A journal article with 3 authors

McCormick, D. A., Shu, Y., & Yu, Y. (2007). Neurophysiology: Hodgkin and Huxley model--still standing? Nature, 445(7123), E1-2; discussion E2-3.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Langowski, J. L., Zhang, X., Wu, L., Mattson, J. D., Chen, T., Smith, K., Basham, B., McClanahan, T., Kastelein, R. A., & Oft, M. (2006). IL-23 promotes tumour incidence and growth. Nature, 442(7101), 461–465.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coulson, J. (2014). Sustainable Use of Wood in Construction. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Liamputtong, P. (Ed.). (2013). Women, Motherhood and Living with HIV/AIDS: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Minnameier, G. (2010). Abduction, Induction, and Analogy. In L. Magnani, W. Carnielli, & C. Pizzi (Eds.), Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology: Abduction, Logic, and Computational Discovery (pp. 107–119). 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 International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, September 15). How Much Energy Could We Generate By Burning All Our Poop? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-much-energy-could-we-generate-by-burning-all-our-poop/

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. (1994). Highway Planning: Agencies Are Attempting to Expedite Environmental Reviews, but Barriers Remain (RCED-94-211). 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

Akiyama, K. M. (2017). Taste Detection in Post-Laryngectomy Head and Neck Cancer Survivors and Its Effect on Dietary Intake and Malnutrition Status [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

Kishkovsky, S. (2015, September 2). Europe; Azerbaijan: Journalist Critical of Leader Is Sentenced to 7 1/2 Years in Prison. New York Times, A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nadeem, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Diaz & Rosenberg, 2008; Nadeem, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Diaz & Rosenberg, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Langowski et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management
ISSN (print)	1750-9653
ISSN (online)	1750-9661
Scope	Strategy and Management Information Systems and Management Management Science and Operations Research Engineering (miscellaneous) Mechanical Engineering