How to format your references using the Leadership and Management in Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Leadership and 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

Cyranoski, D. 2002. “Marie Curie doesn’t live here, Japanese women say.” Nature, 419 (6909): 768.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jacob, L., and L. Lum. 2007. “Deconstructing the hedgehog pathway in development and disease.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 318 (5847): 66–68.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tucker, S. A., D. L. Hanuscin, and C. J. Bearnes. 2008. “The pipeline. Igniting girls’ interest in science.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 319 (5870): 1621–1622.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yao, J., K. M. Munson, W. W. Webb, and J. T. Lis. 2006. “Dynamics of heat shock factor association with native gene loci in living cells.” Nature, 442 (7106): 1050–1053.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Castillo, E., A. Cobo, F. Jubete, and R. E. Pruneda. 1999. Orthogonal Sets and Polar Methods in Linear Algebra. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Linger, H., J. Fisher, A. Barnden, C. Barry, M. Lang, and C. Schneider, eds. 2013. Building Sustainable Information Systems: Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Information Systems Development. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Ouangraoua, A., and M. Raffinot. 2012. “Faster and Simpler Minimal Conflicting Set Identification.” Combinatorial Pattern Matching: 23rd Annual Symposium, CPM 2012, Helsinki, Finland, July 3-5, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, edited by J. Kärkkäinen and J. Stoye, 41–55. 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 Leadership and Management in Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. “The Curious Case Of A Man Who Thought His Reflection Was A Stranger.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/curious-case-man-who-thought-his-reflection-was-stranger/.

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. 1981. Status Report on Executive Branch Implementation of the National Materials and Minerals Policy, Research and Development Act of 1980. 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

Wilson, M. B. 2009. “Constructions of childhood found in award -winning children’s literature.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona.

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

Rothenberg, B. 2017. “How Penguins Make A Home on Road Ice.” New York Times, May 6, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cyranoski 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Cyranoski 2002; Jacob and Lum 2007).

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

Two authors: (Jacob and Lum 2007)
Three or more authors: (Yao et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Leadership and Management in Engineering
Abbreviation	Lead.. Manag. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1532-6748
ISSN (online)	1943-5630
Scope	Strategy and Management Management Science and Operations Research Civil and Structural Engineering