How to format your references using the Review of Managerial Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Review of Managerial 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	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

Sparks S (2007) Use the calm between the storms. Nature 450:354

A journal article with 2 authors

Fisher AT, Becker K (2000) Channelized fluid flow in oceanic crust reconciles heat-flow and permeability data. Nature 403:71–74

A journal article with 3 authors

Foley S, Tiepolo M, Vannucci R (2002) Growth of early continental crust controlled by melting of amphibolite in subduction zones. Nature 417:837–840

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Alt A, Lammens K, Chiocchini C, et al (2007) Bypass of DNA lesions generated during anticancer treatment with cisplatin by DNA polymerase eta. Science 318:967–970

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moloney MG (2015) How to Solve Organic Reaction Mechanisms. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Diffenderfer PM (2008) Microsoft Dynamics NAV: Jump Start to Optimization, 2nd revised edition. Vieweg+Teubner, Wiesbaden

A chapter in an edited book

Massera E, Miglietta ML, Polichetti T, et al (2011) Poly[3-(4-Alkoxyphenyl)thiophenes] Based Chemical Sensors. In: Neri G, Donato N, d’Amico A, Di Natale C (eds) Sensors and Microsystems: AISEM 2010 Proceedings. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 43–47

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 Review of Managerial Science.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) Shell To Cease Drilling In The Arctic After “Disappointing” Results. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/shell-cease-drilling-arctic-after-disappointing-results/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1973) Evaluation of the Office of Economic Opportunity’s Performance Contracting Experiment. 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

Woerner LC (2010) Complicated grief: A case study of pathological bereavement. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University

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

Pilon M (2013) No Nike Deal for Vaulter After He Puts Tape on Logo. New York Times D3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sparks 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Fisher and Becker 2000; Sparks 2007).

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

Two authors: (Fisher and Becker 2000)
Three or more authors: (Alt et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of Managerial Science
Abbreviation	Rev. Manag. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1863-6683
ISSN (online)	1863-6691
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting