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

Andelman, S.J., 2011. Conservation science outside the comfort zone. Nature 475, 290–291.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boltasseva, A., Shalaev, V.M., 2015. Materials science. All that glitters need not be gold. Science 347, 1308–1310.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grandison, R.C., Piper, M.D.W., Partridge, L., 2009. Amino-acid imbalance explains extension of lifespan by dietary restriction in Drosophila. Nature 462, 1061–1064.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Xin, H., Liu, D., Wan, M., Safari, A., Kim, H., Sun, W., O’Connor, M.S., Songyang, Z., 2007. TPP1 is a homologue of ciliate TEBP-beta and interacts with POT1 to recruit telomerase. Nature 445, 559–562.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lindahl, D., 2008. Trump University Commercial Real Estate 101. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Fox, S.H., Brotchie, J.M. (Eds.), 2014. Levodopa-Induced Dyskinesia in Parkinson’s Disease. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Kolvekar, S.K., Panagiotopoulos, N., 2016. Pectus Excavatum, in: Kolvekar, S., Pilegaard, H. (Eds.), Chest Wall Deformities and Corrective Procedures. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 17–20.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. NASA Wants To Establish A Floating Cloud City To Study Venus [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, 1975. Critical Need for a Better System for Adjusting Top Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries (No. FPCD-75-140). 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

Choubey, L., 2015. Quantitative Assessment of Fgfr1 Expression in Neurons and Glia of the Developing Mouse Brain (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Pilon, M., 2012. Jewish School Falls in Final. New York Times SP2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Andelman, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Andelman, 2011; Boltasseva and Shalaev, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Boltasseva and Shalaev, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Xin et al., 2007)

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