How to format your references using the Management Science citation style

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

Goedert M (2015) NEURODEGENERATION. Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases: The prion concept in relation to assembled Aβ, tau, and α-synuclein. Science 349(6248):1255555.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wookey J, Helffrich G (2008) Inner-core shear-wave anisotropy and texture from an observation of PKJKP waves. Nature 454(7206):873–876.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gutiérrez NL, Hilborn R, Defeo O (2011) Leadership, social capital and incentives promote successful fisheries. Nature 470(7334):386–389.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ong LL, Hanikel N, Yaghi OK, Grun C, Strauss MT, Bron P, Lai-Kee-Him J, et al. (2017) Programmable self-assembly of three-dimensional nanostructures from 10,000 unique components. Nature 552(7683):72–77.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Spence R (2008) Introductory Circuits (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex).

An edited book

Scott J, Stoeckli E eds. (2012) Neuromedia: Art and Neuroscience Research (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg).

A chapter in an edited book

Ko CS (2015) Teaching at an Early Age. Hsu S, Wu YY, eds. Education as Cultivation in Chinese Culture Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects. (Springer, Singapore), 63–86.

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 Management Science.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) Children Of Holocaust Babies Face Greater Risk Of Severe Schizophrenia. IFLScience. Retrieved (October 30, 2018), https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/children-holocaust-babies-face-greater-risk-severe-schizophrenia/.

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 (1993) Airport Improvement Program: Program Funding by State Relative to Enplanements for Selected Years (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fino M (2010) Fruit and vegetable intake and exercise practices of college students of color. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Feeney K (2010) Ready-to-Eat for Rosh Hashana. New York Times (September 5).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goedert 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Wookey and Helffrich 2008, Goedert 2015).

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

Two authors: (Wookey and Helffrich 2008)
Three or more authors: (Ong et al. 2017)

About the journal

Full journal title	Management Science
Abbreviation	Manage. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0025-1909
ISSN (online)	1526-5501
Scope	Strategy and Management Management Science and Operations Research