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

Braun DC (2012) Comment on “Detection of emerging sunspot regions in the solar interior.” Science 336(6079):296; author reply 296.

A journal article with 2 authors

Simmons EM, Hartwig JF (2012) Catalytic functionalization of unactivated primary C-H bonds directed by an alcohol. Nature 483(7387):70–73.

A journal article with 3 authors

Long SB, Casey PJ, Beese LS (2002) Reaction path of protein farnesyltransferase at atomic resolution. Nature 419(6907):645–650.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Venteicher AS, Abreu EB, Meng Z, McCann KE, Terns RM, Veenstra TD, Terns MP, Artandi SE (2009) A human telomerase holoenzyme protein required for Cajal body localization and telomere synthesis. Science 323(5914):644–648.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Remy JG, Letamendia C (2014) LTE Services (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ).

An edited book

Boer J ed. (2010) Chlorinated Paraffins (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg).

A chapter in an edited book

Saharan V, Pal A (2016) Current and Future Prospects of Chitosan-Based Nanomaterials in Plant Protection and Growth. Pal A, ed. Chitosan Based Nanomaterials in Plant Growth and Protection. SpringerBriefs in Plant Science. (Springer India, New Delhi), 43–48.

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) Robotic Octopus Arm Could Revolutionize Surgery. 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 (1969) Principles and Practices of Auditing in the ADP Systems Environment (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

Vallaster JR (2019) Recognizing and Supporting the Forgotten Poverty Frontier: Exploring Suburban School Poverty in Elementary Schools. Doctoral dissertation. (George Washington University, Washington, DC).

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) Master. New York Times (January 5).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Braun 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Braun 2012, Simmons and Hartwig 2012).

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

Two authors: (Simmons and Hartwig 2012)
Three or more authors: (Venteicher et al. 2009)

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