How to format your references using the INFORMS Journal on Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for INFORMS Journal on Computing. 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 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

Seife C (2000) PHYSICS: Will NIF Live Up to Its Name? Science 289(5482):1128.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hitti FL, Siegelbaum SA (2014) The hippocampal CA2 region is essential for social memory. Nature 508(7494):88–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

Topper TP, Holmer LE, Caron JB (2014) Brachiopods hitching a ride: an early case of commensalism in the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. Sci. Rep. 4:6704.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Giurfa M, Zhang S, Jenett A, Menzel R, Srinivasan MV (2001) The concepts of “sameness” and “difference” in an insect. Nature 410(6831):930–933.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Levitin V (2005) High Temperature Strain of Metals and Alloys (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG).

An edited book

Mehdipour P ed. (2015) Epigenetics Territory and Cancer (Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht).

A chapter in an edited book

Massone C, Nunzi E (2012) Pathogenesis. Nunzi E, Massone C, eds. Leprosy: A Practical Guide. (Springer, Milano), 39–42.

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 INFORMS Journal on Computing.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Realistic Robot Faces Aren’t Enough – We Need Emotion To Put Us At Ease With Androids. IFLScience. Retrieved (October 30, 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 (2011) Public Transportation: Requirements for Smaller Capital Projects Generally Seen as Less Burdensome (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

Goetz SB (2014) Perceptions toward a restraint-free practice: A case study. Doctoral dissertation. (University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ).

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

Kenigsberg B (2017) The Pulitzer at 100. New York Times (July 20).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Seife 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Hitti and Siegelbaum 2014, Seife 2000).

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

Two authors: (Hitti and Siegelbaum 2014)
Three or more authors: (Giurfa et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	INFORMS Journal on Computing
ISSN (print)	1091-9856
ISSN (online)	1526-5528
Scope	General Engineering Computer Science Applications Information Systems Software Management Science and Operations Research