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

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

[1]

Rosner G. PARTICLE PHYSICS: Enhanced: How Strange Is the Proton? Science 2000;290:2083–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wang Z, Becker H. Ratios of S, Se and Te in the silicate Earth require a volatile-rich late veneer. Nature 2013;499:328–31.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hayden BY, Pearson JM, Platt ML. Fictive reward signals in the anterior cingulate cortex. Science 2009;324:948–50.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Grujić J, Gracia-Lázaro C, Milinski M, Semmann D, Traulsen A, Cuesta JA, et al. A comparative analysis of spatial Prisoner’s Dilemma experiments: conditional cooperation and payoff irrelevance. Sci Rep 2014;4:4615.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Aubry J-F, Brinzei N, Mazouni M-H. Systems Dependability Assessment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Im S. Photo-Excited Charge Collection Spectroscopy: Probing the traps in field-effect transistors. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Maxwell AE, Taylor VM, Bastani R. Cancer Screening Among Asian Americans. In: Wu AH, Stram DO, editors. Cancer Epidemiology Among Asian Americans, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 81–105.

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 Manufacturing Systems.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K. Thank Grandmothers For Romance. IFLScience 2015.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Questionable Need for All Schools Planned by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Guo Z. Experimental Analysis of Polymer Nanocomposite Foaming Using Carbon Dioxide. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University, 2008.

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

[1]

Greenhouse L. COURT TO WEIGH RACE AS A FACTOR IN SCHOOL ROLLS. New York Times 2006:A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Manufacturing Systems
Abbreviation	J. Manuf. Syst.
ISSN (print)	0278-6125
Scope	Hardware and Architecture Software Control and Systems Engineering Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering