How to format your references using the Strategic Management Journal citation style

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

Rosenberg AA. 2007. Fishing for certainty. Nature 449(7165): 989.

A journal article with 2 authors

Corma A, Serna P. 2006. Chemoselective hydrogenation of nitro compounds with supported gold catalysts. Science (New York, N.Y.) 313(5785): 332–334.

A journal article with 3 authors

Griffin AS, West SA, Buckling A. 2004. Cooperation and competition in pathogenic bacteria. Nature 430(7003): 1024–1027.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Balestrini L et al. 2014. Berberine exposure triggers developmental effects on planarian regeneration. Scientific reports 4: 4914.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chang CM. 2010. Service Systems Management and Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Yarchoan R (ed). 2014. Cancers in People with HIV and AIDS: Progress and Challenges. Springer: New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Dissanayake CB, Chandrajith R. 2009. Medical Geology of Fluoride. In Introduction to Medical Geology, Chandrajith R (ed). Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg: 59–97.

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 Strategic Management Journal.

Blog post

Luntz S. 2016, December 23. Ebola Vaccine Found To Be 100 Percent Effective In Trial. IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ebola-vaccine-found-to-be-100-percent-effective-in-trial/ [30 October 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. 1977. Purchase and Preparation of Television Commercials by the Government. 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

Sparks GA. 2008. Charismatic leadership: An exploratory investigation of the techniques of influence. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Hu W. 2016, December 6. Taking Aim at Sidewalk Scaffolding, That Unwanted Neighbor. New York Times : A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rosenberg, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Corma and Serna, 2006; Rosenberg, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Corma and Serna, 2006)
Three authors: (Griffin, West, and Buckling, 2004)
4 or more authors: (Balestrini et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Strategic Management Journal
Abbreviation	Strategic Manage. J.
ISSN (print)	0143-2095
ISSN (online)	1097-0266
Scope	Business and International Management Strategy and Management