How to format your references using the International Journal of Production Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Production Economics. 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

Holt, R., 2012. US election: Politicians should think like scientists. Nature 489, 493–494.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mahowald, M.W., Schenck, C.H., 2005. Insights from studying human sleep disorders. Nature 437, 1279–1285.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kolodner, R.D., Putnam, C.D., Myung, K., 2002. Maintenance of genome stability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Science 297, 552–557.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Weaver, A.J., Saenko, O.A., Clark, P.U., Mitrovica, J.X., 2003. Meltwater pulse 1A from Antarctica as a trigger of the Bølling-Allerød warm interval. Science 299, 1709–1713.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Riehle, F., 2003. Frequency Standards. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Walter, N.G., Woodson, S.A., Batey, R.T. (Eds.), 2009. Non-Protein Coding RNAs, Springer Series in Biophysics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Hallinger, P., Bridges, E.M., 2007. INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY AND PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING, in: Bridges, E.M. (Ed.), A Problem-Based Approach for Management Education: Preparing Managers for Action. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 91–108.

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 Production Economics.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2017. Uranium-Respiring Bacteria May Have Produced Mining Resources [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1971. Use of ADP Equipment Operated by Three or Four Typical Government Contractors (No. B-115369). 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

Hong, P.K., 2013. Stomach cancer diet education and screening awareness in East Asian American women (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

St. Fleur, N., 2017. Rattled by Trump Policies, Scientists Take to Streets. New York Times A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Holt, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Holt, 2012; Mahowald and Schenck, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Mahowald and Schenck, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Weaver et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Production Economics
Abbreviation	Int. J. Prod. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0925-5273
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting Management Science and Operations Research Economics and Econometrics Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering