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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Management in Engineering. 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	Download the output style file
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

Ranganathan, R. 2003. “Cell biology. A matter of life or death.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 299 (5613): 1677–1679.

A journal article with 2 authors

Senn, D. B., and H. F. Hemond. 2002. “Nitrate controls on iron and arsenic in an urban lake.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 296 (5577): 2373–2376.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rudolph, M. L., V. Lekić, and C. Lithgow-Bertelloni. 2015. “Viscosity jump in Earth’s mid-mantle.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 350 (6266): 1349–1352.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, M., G. Zuo, J. Chen, Y. Gao, and H. Fang. 2013. “Aggregated gas molecules: toxic to protein?” Scientific reports, 3: 1660.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lad, B. K., D. Shrivastava, and M. S. Kulkarni. 2016. Machine Tool Reliability. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Tremblay, V. J. 2012. New Perspectives on Industrial Organization: With Contributions from Behavioral Economics and Game Theory. Springer Texts in Business and Economics. Edited by C. H. Tremblay. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Silvestry, F. E. 2013. “Echocardiographic Evaluation of Patients Before and After MitraClip Mitral Valve Repair.” Atlas of Percutaneous Edge-to-Edge Mitral Valve Repair, edited by T. Feldman, O. Franzen, R. Low, J. Rogers, and K. K. Yeo, 63–93. London: 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 in Engineering.

Blog post

Carpineti, C. 2017. “This Awesome Omnicopter Drone Can Play Catch.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 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. 1998. Federal Research: Observations on the Small Business Innovation Research Program. 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

Topdemir, C. M. 2010. “School counselor accountability practices: A national study.” Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida.

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

Almosawa, S., and B. Hubbard. 2016. “Blast ‘So Vile’ It Could Alter War in Yemen.” New York Times, October 10, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ranganathan 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Ranganathan 2003; Senn and Hemond 2002).

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

Two authors: (Senn and Hemond 2002)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Management in Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Manage. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0742-597X
ISSN (online)	1943-5479
Scope	Strategy and Management Industrial relations Management Science and Operations Research General Engineering