How to format your references using the Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing. 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

Szpiro, G. (2013). Economics: Value judgements. Nature, 500(7464), 521–523.

A journal article with 2 authors

Knight, J. C., & Russell, P. S. J. (2002). Applied optics. New ways to guide light. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5566), 276–277.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ahn, Y.-Y., Bagrow, J. P., & Lehmann, S. (2010). Link communities reveal multiscale complexity in networks. Nature, 466(7307), 761–764.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Grueninger, D., Treiber, N., Ziegler, M. O. P., Koetter, J. W. A., Schulze, M.-S., & Schulz, G. E. (2008). Designed protein-protein association. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5860), 206–209.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matthews, C. (2012). Engineers’ Data Book. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ganzha, M., & Jain, L. C. (Eds.). (2013). Multiagent Systems and Applications: Volume 1:Practice and Experience (Vol. 45). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

McKee, M. L. (2015). Deconvoluting the Reaction Path from B10H14 Plus BH4 − to B12H12 2−. Can Theory Make a Contribution? In D. Hnyk & M. McKee (Eds.), Boron: The Fifth Element (pp. 121–138). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Intelligent Manufacturing.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 1). Lab Worker Accidentally Infects Himself With Smallpox-Like Virus. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/lab-worker-accidentally-infects-himself-smallpox-virus/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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). Science and Technology: Information on Federal Programs and Interagency Efforts That Support Small Businesses Engaged in Manufacturing (No. GAO-07-714). Washington, DC: 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

Wenger, M. C. (2011). Free-choice family learning experiences at informal astronomy observing events (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Sisario, B. (2016, December 14). Bob Krasnow, 82, Executive Who Revived Elektra Records. New York Times, p. A30.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Szpiro 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Knight and Russell 2002; Szpiro 2013).

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

Two authors: (Knight and Russell 2002)
Three or more authors: (Grueninger et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
Abbreviation	J. Intell. Manuf.
ISSN (print)	0956-5515
ISSN (online)	1572-8145
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Software Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering