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

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

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Bernstein, R. (2015). From war to science paradise. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6234), 602.
A journal article with 2 authors
Hunt, T. L., & Lipo, C. P. (2006). Late colonization of Easter Island. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5767), 1603–1606.
A journal article with 3 authors
Fine, P. V. A., Mesones, I., & Coley, P. D. (2004). Herbivores promote habitat specialization by trees in Amazonian forests. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5684), 663–665.
A journal article with 21 or more authors
Liu, T., Guo, P., Zhou, Y., Wang, J., Chen, L., Yang, H., Qian, X., & Yang, Q. (2014). A crystal structure-guided rational design switching non-carbohydrate inhibitors’ specificity between two β-GlcNAcase homologs. Scientific Reports, 4, 6188.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Alhabeeb, M. J. (2012). Mathematical Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Sakurai, A., Hasida, K., & Nitta, K. (Eds.). (2007). New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI 2003 and JSAI 2004 Conferences and Workshops, Niigata, Japan, June 23-27, 2003 and Kanazawa, Japan, May 31 - June 4, 2004, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 3609). Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Cominetti, R., Facchinei, F., & Lasserre, J. B. (2012). Chapter 4 Convexity in Polynomial Optimization. In F. Facchinei & J. B. Lasserre (Eds.), Modern Optimization Modelling Techniques (pp. 81–92). 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 Journal of Change Management.

Blog post
Luntz, S. (2016, September 15). Open Source Science Explores Malaria Drugs. 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. (1994). Job Training Partnership Act: Labor Title IV Initiatives Could Improve Relations With Native Americans (HEHS-94-67). 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
Green, J. L. (2012). The leadership practices of executive women of local government [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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
Landler, M., & Appelbaum, B. (2017, April 26). Trump Tells Foreign Leaders That Nafta Can Stay for Now. New York Times, A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bernstein, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bernstein, 2015; Hunt & Lipo, 2006).

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

  • Two authors: (Hunt & Lipo, 2006)
  • Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Change Management
AbbreviationJ. Chang. Manag.
ISSN (print)1469-7017
ISSN (online)1479-1811
ScopeStrategy and Management

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