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

Anthes E (2014) Treatment: Marginal gains. Nature 508(7496):S54-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Knorr G, Lohmann G (2003) Southern Ocean origin for the resumption of Atlantic thermohaline circulation during deglaciation. Nature 424(6948):532–536.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stephens DW, McLinn CM, Stevens JR (2002) Discounting and reciprocity in an Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma. Science 298(5601):2216–2218.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Vargas-Perez H, Ting-A Kee R, Walton CH, Hansen DM, Razavi R, Clarke L, Bufalino MR, Allison DW, Steffensen SC, van der Kooy D (2009) Ventral tegmental area BDNF induces an opiate-dependent-like reward state in naive rats. Science 324(5935):1732–1734.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paolella MS (2006) Fundamental Probability (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK).

An edited book

Naimzada AK, Stefani S, Torriero A eds. (2009) Networks, Topology and Dynamics: Theory and Applications to Economics and Social Systems (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg).

A chapter in an edited book

Andersen JV, Nowak A (2013) Catching Animal Spirits: Using Complexity Theory to Detect Speculative Moments of the Markets. Nowak A, ed. An Introduction to Socio-Finance. (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg), 93–120.

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) Scientist At Work: Observing Termite Behaviours, Personalities – And Souls? IFLScience. Retrieved (October 30, 2018), https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientist-work-observing-termite-behaviours-personalities-and-souls/.

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 (2014) DOD Space Systems: Additional Knowledge Would Better Support Decisions about Disaggregating Large Satellites (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

Cornejo VM (2010) Teachers’ perceptions about promoting mental health in the classroom. Doctoral dissertation. (California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA).

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

Kelly C (2014) In Estate Planning, Family Isn’t Always First. New York Times (May 3).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Anthes 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Anthes 2014, Knorr and Lohmann 2003).

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

Two authors: (Knorr and Lohmann 2003)
Three or more authors: (Vargas-Perez 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