How to format your references using the International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications. 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

Savage, Neil. 2015. “Electrochemistry: Liquid Assets.” Nature 526 (7575): S98-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sahin, Mustafa, and Mriganka Sur. 2015. “Genes, Circuits, and Precision Therapies for Autism and Related Neurodevelopmental Disorders.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 350 (6263).

A journal article with 3 authors

Iwamoto, Masayuki, Shigeki Matsunaga, and Shigetoshi Oiki. 2014. “Paradoxical One-Ion Pore Behavior of the Long β-Helical Peptide of Marine Cytotoxic Polytheonamide B.” Scientific Reports 4 (January): 3636.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Vardi, Assaf, Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy, Helen F. Fredricks, Kimberly J. Popendorf, Justin E. Ossolinski, Liti Haramaty, and Kay D. Bidle. 2009. “Viral Glycosphingolipids Induce Lytic Infection and Cell Death in Marine Phytoplankton.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 326 (5954): 861–865.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schmidt, Paul, Rolf Körber, and Matthias Coppers. 2003. Sieben Und Siebmaschinen. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Hubálek, Zdenek. 2011. Microbial Zoonoses and Sapronoses. Edited by Ivo Rudolf. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Seybold, Jonathan, Ulrich Kessler, Karl-Peter Fritz, and Heinz Kück. 2014. “Precision Micro Assembly of Optical Components on MID and PCB.” In Precision Assembly Technologies and Systems: 7th IFIP WG 5.5 International Precision Assembly Seminar, IPAS 2014, Chamonix, France, February 16-18, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, edited by Svetan Ratchev, 30–36. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications.

Blog post

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2017. “Researchers Build A Wire Three Atoms Wide.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/researchers-build-a-wire-three-atoms-wide/.

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. 1997. Head Start: Research Provides Little Information on Impact of Current Program. HEHS-97-59. Washington, DC: 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

Bemmel, Edwin P. 2008. “A Cost -Effectiveness Analysis of Two Community College Baccalaureate Programs in Florida: An Exploratory Study.” Doctoral dissertation, Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic 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

McKINLEY, James C., Jr. 2017. “Man Charged With Murder In Shooting At Rap Show.” New York Times, July 13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Savage 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Savage 2015; Sahin and Sur 2015).

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

Two authors: (Sahin and Sur 2015)
Three authors: (Iwamoto, Matsunaga, and Oiki 2014)
4 or more authors: (Vardi et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications
Abbreviation	Int. J. Logist.
ISSN (print)	1367-5567
ISSN (online)	1469-848X
Scope	Management Information Systems Computer Science Applications Information Systems Management Science and Operations Research Control and Systems Engineering