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

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

Degen, M. (2003). Science has flourished in eastern Germany since reunification, bringing researchers from far and near. But the tide of investment may be turning. Nature, 423(6936), 204–205.

A journal article with 2 authors

Redman, C. W., & Sargent, I. L. (2005). Latest advances in understanding preeclampsia. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5728), 1592–1594.

A journal article with 3 authors

Preusser, F., Radies, D., & Matter, A. (2002). A 160,000-year record of dune development and atmospheric circulation in Southern Arabia. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5575), 2018–2020.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yang, L., Wang, C., Holst-Jensen, A., Morisset, D., Lin, Y., & Zhang, D. (2013). Characterization of GM events by insert knowledge adapted re-sequencing approaches. Scientific reports, 3, 2839.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kunz, W. (2012). Do Species Exist? Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Tasić, A., Serdijn, W. A., Larson, L. E., & Setti, G. (Eds.). (2009). Circuits and Systems for Future Generations of Wireless Communications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee, R. W. J., Schewitz, L. P., Raveney, B. J. E., & Dick, A. D. (2009). Steroid Sensitivity in Uveitis. In J. V. Forrester (Ed.), Uveitis and Immunological Disorders (pp. 45–54). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Management Control.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, March 22). Neon Sharks Caught On Camera. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/neon-sharks-caught-camera/. 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. (2016). Highway Safety: More Robust DOT Oversight of Guardrails and Other Roadside Hardware Could Further Enhance Safety (No. GAO-16-575). 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

Ionedes, N. J. (2008). An exploration of social interest therapy as a treatment for depression in the elderly (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Loomis, G. (2012, November 6). Carnal Knowledge in a Modern Metropolis: Babylon. New York Times, p. 0.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Degen 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Degen 2003; Redman and Sargent 2005).

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

Two authors: (Redman and Sargent 2005)
Three or more authors: (Yang et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Management Control
Abbreviation	J. Manag. Contr.
ISSN (print)	2191-4761
ISSN (online)	2191-477X
Scope	Management Information Systems Management of Technology and Innovation Strategy and Management Management Science and Operations Research