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

Svoboda, P., 2010. Journal club. A molecular biologist explores how new genomic tools can be applied to wild animals. Nature 465, 529.

A journal article with 2 authors

Edenhofer, O., Minx, J., 2014. Climate policy. Mapmakers and navigators, facts and values. Science 345, 37–38.

A journal article with 3 authors

Qin, Y., Wang, X., Wang, Z.L., 2008. Microfibre-nanowire hybrid structure for energy scavenging. Nature 451, 809–813.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Poillet-Perez, L., Xie, X., Zhan, L., Yang, Y., Sharp, D.W., Hu, Z.S., Su, X., Maganti, A., Jiang, C., Lu, W., Zheng, H., Bosenberg, M.W., Mehnert, J.M., Guo, J.Y., Lattime, E., Rabinowitz, J.D., White, E., 2018. Autophagy maintains tumour growth through circulating arginine. Nature 563, 569–573.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reeder, L., 2010. Guide to Green Building Rating Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Magnini, B., Cutugno, F., Falcone, M., Pianta, E. (Eds.), 2013. Evaluation of Natural Language and Speech Tools for Italian: International Workshop, EVALITA 2011, Rome, January 24-25, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Canale, D., 2009. The Many Faces of the Codification of Law in Modern Continental Europe, in: Pattaro, E., Canale, D., Grossi, P., Hofmann, H., Riley, P. (Eds.), A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence: Vol. 9: A History of the Philosophy of Law in the Civil Law World, 1600-1900; Vol. 10: The Philosophers’ Philosophy of Law from the Seventeenth Century to Our Days. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 135–183.

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

Andrews, R., 2017. Bacteria Are Evolving To Eat The Plastic We Dump Into The Oceans [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/bacteria-evolving-eat-plastic-dump-into-oceans/ (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, 2002. School Meal Programs: Estimated Costs for Three Administrative Processes at Selected Locations (No. GAO-02-944). 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

Werbeck, K.-U., 2012. From rubble to revolutions and raves: Literary interrogations of German media ecologies (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Barron, J., 2017. Wounded by ‘Fearless Girl,’ Creator of ‘Charging Bull’ Wants Her to Move. New York Times A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Svoboda, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Edenhofer and Minx, 2014; Svoboda, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Edenhofer and Minx, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Poillet-Perez et al., 2018)

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