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

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

Leask, Julie. 2011. “Target the Fence-Sitters.” Nature 473 (7348): 443–445.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kurzban, Robert, and H. Clark Barrett. 2012. “Behavior. Origins of Cumulative Culture.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 335 (6072): 1056–1057.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, Jian, Yajun Mei, and Diana Hicks. 2014. “Science Communication. Comment on ‘Quantifying Long-Term Scientific Impact.’” Science (New York, N.Y.) 345 (6193): 149.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Tu, Linna, William C. S. Tai, Lu Chen, and David K. Banfield. 2008. “Signal-Mediated Dynamic Retention of Glycosyltransferases in the Golgi.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 321 (5887): 404–407.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mann, Steven. 2010. Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010 Bible. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Akhmet, Marat. 2016. Replication of Chaos in Neural Networks, Economics and Physics. Edited by Mehmet Onur Fen. 1st ed. 2016. Nonlinear Physical Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Theron, Linda C., and Nareadi Phasha. 2015. “Cultural Pathways to Resilience: Opportunities and Obstacles as Recalled by Black South African Students.” In Youth Resilience and Culture: Commonalities and Complexities, edited by Linda C. Theron, Linda Liebenberg, and Michael Ungar, 51–65. Cross-Cultural Advancements in Positive Psychology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Research.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “In Defence Of Ecovillages: The Communities That Can Teach The World To Live Sustainably.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 1982. Trends in Evaluation. 118591. 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

Khojandi, Niloufar. 2017. “Investigating Secondary Infections and Their Impact on Host Fitness in the Dictyostelium-Burkholderia Symbiosis System.” Doctoral dissertation, Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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

Alexander, Kelly. 2002. “A Different Shade of Green.” New York Times, December 1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Leask 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Leask 2011; Kurzban and Barrett 2012).

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

Two authors: (Kurzban and Barrett 2012)
Three authors: (Wang, Mei, and Hicks 2014)
4 or more authors: (Tu et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Production Research
Abbreviation	Int. J. Prod. Res.
ISSN (print)	0020-7543
ISSN (online)	1366-588X
Scope	Strategy and Management Management Science and Operations Research Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering