How to format your references using the International Strategic Management Review citation style

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

Bruins, H. J. (2010). Anthropology. Dating Pharaonic Egypt. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5985), 1489–1490.

A journal article with 2 authors

Giessen, H., & Lippitz, M. (2010). Physics. Directing light emission from quantum dots. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5994), 910–911.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rannou, P., Hourdin, F., & McKay, C. P. (2002). A wind origin for Titan’s haze structure. Nature, 418(6900), 853–856.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Ylikorkala, A., Rossi, D. J., Korsisaari, N., Luukko, K., Alitalo, K., Henkemeyer, M., & Mäkelä, T. P. (2001). Vascular abnormalities and deregulation of VEGF in Lkb1-deficient mice. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5533), 1323–1326.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Le Ruyet, D., & Pischella, M. (2015). Digital Communications 1. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cooper, D. S., & Durante, C. (Eds.). (2016). Thyroid Cancer: A Case-Based Approach (1st ed. 2016). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee, C.-S., Wang, M.-H., Hung, P.-H., Kuo, Y.-L., Wang, H.-M., & Lin, B.-H. (2013). Apply Fuzzy Markup Language to ASAP Assessment System. In G. Acampora, V. Loia, C.-S. Lee, & M.-H. Wang (Eds.), On the Power of Fuzzy Markup Language (pp. 73–93). 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 Strategic Management Review.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, October 14). This Self-Driving Car Comes With A Landing Pad For A Drone. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (1995). General Government Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments (AA-95-33(3)). 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

Carman, S. B. (2013). Leadership style and church attendance: An ex post facto study of Churches of Christ in Texas [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

Belson, K. (2014, August 11). Coaxing Fire and Police Staffs in Arizona to Cut Own Pensions. 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 (Bruins, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Bruins, 2010; Giessen & Lippitz, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Giessen & Lippitz, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Ylikorkala et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Strategic Management Review
Abbreviation	Int. Strat. Manag. Rev.
ISSN (print)	2306-7748
Scope