How to format your references using the European Journal of Operational Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Operational Research. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Smith, C. (2003). Drug target validation: Hitting the target. Nature, 422(6929), 341, 343, 345 passim.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yan, J., & Aldrich, R. W. (2010). LRRC26 auxiliary protein allows BK channel activation at resting voltage without calcium. Nature, 466(7305), 513–516.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cobaleda, C., Jochum, W., & Busslinger, M. (2007). Conversion of mature B cells into T cells by dedifferentiation to uncommitted progenitors. Nature, 449(7161), 473–477.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gierasch, P. J., Ingersoll, A. P., Banfield, D., Ewald, S. P., Helfenstein, P., Simon-Miller, A., Vasavada, A., Breneman, H. H., & Senske, D. A. (2000). Observation of moist convection in Jupiter’s atmosphere. Galileo Imaging Team. Nature, 403(6770), 628–630.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Guzik, A. (2013). Essentials for Occupational Health Nursing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Brasseur, G. P. (2005). Aeronomy of the Middle Atmosphere: Chemistry and Physics of the Stratosphere and Mesosphere (S. Solomon, Ed.; Third revised and enlarged edition, Vol. 32). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Carlberg, C., & Molnár, F. (2014). Linking Signal Transduction and Gene Regulation. In F. Molnár (Ed.), Mechanisms of Gene Regulation (pp. 71–89). Springer Netherlands.

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 European Journal of Operational Research.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, April 4). Rare Marine Fossils Discovered In World War I Trenches. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rare-marine-fossils-discovered-in-world-war-i-trenches/

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). Protest Against Rejection of Bid (B-178720). 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

Mullen, C. R. (2017). Factors Influencing Canadian Power Engineers’ Decision to Pursue Advanced Certification [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Almosawa, S., & Hubbard, B. (2017, March 11). Yemen Airstrike Kills at Least 16. New York Times, A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Smith, 2003; Yan & Aldrich, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Yan & Aldrich, 2010)
Three authors: (Cobaleda et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Gierasch et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Operational Research
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Oper. Res.
ISSN (print)	0377-2217
Scope	Information Systems and Management Management Science and Operations Research Modelling and Simulation