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

Meibom, Anders. 2008. “Geochemistry. The Rise and Fall of a Great Idea.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 319 (5862): 418–419.

A journal article with 2 authors

Redman, Barbara K., and Jon F. Merz. 2008. “Sociology. Scientific Misconduct: Do the Punishments Fit the Crime?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 321 (5890): 775.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bintanja, Richard, Roderik S. W. van de Wal, and Johannes Oerlemans. 2005. “Modelled Atmospheric Temperatures and Global Sea Levels over the Past Million Years.” Nature 437 (7055): 125–128.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hilgenkamp, Hans, Ariando, Henk-Jan H. Smilde, Dave H. A. Blank, Guus Rijnders, Horst Rogalla, John R. Kirtley, and Chang C. Tsuei. 2003. “Ordering and Manipulation of the Magnetic Moments in Large-Scale Superconducting Pi-Loop Arrays.” Nature 422 (6927): 50–53.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fernando, Xavier N. 2014. Radio Over Fiber for Wireless Communications. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Krasilnikov, Pavel. 2013. The Soils of Mexico. Edited by Ma del Carmen Gutiérrez-Castorena, Robert J. Ahrens, Carlos Omar Cruz-Gaistardo, Sergey Sedov, and Elizabeth Solleiro-Rebolledo. World Soils Book Series. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Käyhkö, Jukka, Elga Apsite, Anna Bolek, Nikolai Filatov, Sergey Kondratyev, Johanna Korhonen, Jurate Kriaučiūnienė, et al. 2015. “Recent Change—River Run-off and Ice Cover.” In Second Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin, edited by The BACC II Author Team, 99–116. Regional Climate Studies. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Hovercraft Coming To Market in 2017.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/hovercraft-coming-market-2017/.

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. 2002. Surface and Maritime Transportation: Developing Strategies for Enhancing Mobility: A National Challenge. GAO-02-775. 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

Selis, Allen Harold. 2010. “Holding the Center: How One Jewish Day School Negotiates Differences in a Pluralistic Community.” Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Bilefsky, Dan, and Stephen Castle. 2013. “Britain Says Equine Drug May Be in Food Chain.” New York Times, February 15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Meibom 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Meibom 2008; Redman and Merz 2008).

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

Two authors: (Redman and Merz 2008)
Three authors: (Bintanja, van de Wal, and Oerlemans 2005)
4 or more authors: (Hilgenkamp et al. 2003)

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