How to format your references using the The International Journal of Management Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The International Journal of Management Education. 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

Boughman, J. (2007). Great expectations. Nature, 447(7145), 752.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wiseman, B. S., & Werb, Z. (2002). Stromal effects on mammary gland development and breast cancer. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5570), 1046–1049.

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(6891), 837–840.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Thines, B., Katsir, L., Melotto, M., Niu, Y., Mandaokar, A., Liu, G., Nomura, K., He, S. Y., Howe, G. A., & Browse, J. (2007). JAZ repressor proteins are targets of the SCF(COI1) complex during jasmonate signalling. Nature, 448(7154), 661–665.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gavin, H., & Porter, T. (2014). Female Aggression. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Winther, R., Gran, B. A., & Dahll, G. (Eds.). (2005). Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security: 24th International Conference, SAFECOMP 2005, Fredrikstad, Norway, September 28-30, 2005. Proceedings (Vol. 3688). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lawson, R. R., & Snow, A. (2016). The Interface of Emergency Department, Oncology, and Palliative Social Work: Psychosocial Interventions in Oncologic Emergencies. In K. H. Todd & C. R. Thomas Jr. (Eds.), Oncologic Emergency Medicine: Principles and Practice (pp. 67–77). Springer International Publishing.

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 The International Journal of Management Education.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, October 30). You Could Be Flying In A Windowless Plane Within A Decade. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (1984). The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Request for Radio Frequencies (RCED-84-158). 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

Bennett, A. L. (2019). An Empirical Longitudinal Analysis of Agile Methodologies and Firm Financial Performance [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Barron, J. (2017, July 4). In East Hampton, an Airport Is Viewed as a Roaring, Round-the-Clock Nuisance. New York Times, A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Boughman, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Boughman, 2007; Wiseman & Werb, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Wiseman & Werb, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Thines et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	The International Journal of Management Education
ISSN (print)	1472-8117
Scope	Strategy and Management Education