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

Wuebbles, Donald J. 2009. “Atmosphere. Nitrous Oxide: No Laughing Matter.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 326 (5949): 56–57.

A journal article with 2 authors

Seelig, Burckhard, and Jack W. Szostak. 2007. “Selection and Evolution of Enzymes from a Partially Randomized Non-Catalytic Scaffold.” Nature 448 (7155): 828–831.

A journal article with 3 authors

Erickson, Brent, Rina Singh, and Paul Winters. 2011. “Synthetic Biology: Regulating Industry Uses of New Biotechnologies.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 333 (6047): 1254–1256.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Dettman, Jeremy R., Caroline Sirjusingh, Linda M. Kohn, and James B. Anderson. 2007. “Incipient Speciation by Divergent Adaptation and Antagonistic Epistasis in Yeast.” Nature 447 (7144): 585–588.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grous, Ammar. 2011. Applied Metrology for Manufacturing Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gannon, Todd, Margaret Fletcher, and Teresa Ball, eds. 2005. Mack Scogin Merrill Elam: Knowlton Hall. Vol. 6. Source Books in Architecture. New York, NY: Princeton Archit. Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhan, Naijun, Shuling Wang, and Hengjun Zhao. 2013. “Formal Modelling, Analysis and Verification of Hybrid Systems.” In Unifying Theories of Programming and Formal Engineering Methods: International Training School on Software Engineering, Held at ICTAC 2013, Shanghai, China, August 26-30, 2013, Advanced Lectures, edited by Zhiming Liu, Jim Woodcock, and Huibiao Zhu, 207–281. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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

Luntz, Stephen. 2017. “Some Of The Earth’s Original Crust Survives In Northern Canada.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/some-of-the-earths-original-crust-survives-in-canada/.

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. 2008. Commercial Aviation: Impact of Airline Crew Scheduling on Delays and Cancellations of Commercial Flights. GAO-08-1041R. 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

French, Dominique C. 2012. “A Case against E-Waste: Where One Country’s Trash Is (Not) Another Country’s Treasure: Developing National E-Waste Legislation to Regulate E-Waste Exportation.” Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Kishkovsky, Sophia. 2008. “Investors in Russian Gas Venture Clash.” New York Times, May 31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wuebbles 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Wuebbles 2009; Seelig and Szostak 2007).

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

Two authors: (Seelig and Szostak 2007)
Three authors: (Erickson, Singh, and Winters 2011)
4 or more authors: (Dettman et al. 2007)

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