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

Bohannon, John. 2015. “Scientific Societies. Torture Report Prompts APA Apology.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 349 (6245): 221–222.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kronenberg, Mitchell, and Alexander Rudensky. 2005. “Regulation of Immunity by Self-Reactive T Cells.” Nature 435 (7042): 598–604.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tamsir, Alvin, Jeffrey J. Tabor, and Christopher A. Voigt. 2011. “Robust Multicellular Computing Using Genetically Encoded NOR Gates and Chemical ‘Wires.’” Nature 469 (7329): 212–215.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Schumer, Molly, Chenling Xu, Daniel L. Powell, Arun Durvasula, Laurits Skov, Chris Holland, John C. Blazier, et al. 2018. “Natural Selection Interacts with Recombination to Shape the Evolution of Hybrid Genomes.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 360 (6389): 656–660.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baldwin, Cheryl J. 2015. The 10 Principles of Food Industry Sustainability. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Picot, Arnold. 2015. The Internationalization of German Software-Based Companies: Sustainable Growth Strategies for Small and Medium-Sized Companies. Edited by Thomas Hess, Christian Hörndlein, Natalie Kaltenecker, Claudius Jablonka, Michel Schreiner, Alexander Werbik, Alexander Benlian, Rahild Neuburger, and Bernhard Gold. Progress in IS. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kamran, Saman, and Mehdi Jazayeri. 2015. “Dynamic Content and User Identification in Social Semantic Tagging Systems.” In Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering: 12th International Conference, CDVE 2015, Mallorca, Spain, September 20-23, 2015. Proceedings, edited by Yuhua Luo, 36–47. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. 2015. “These Tiny Swimming Robots Could Remove Carbon Dioxide From The Oceans.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/these-tiny-swimming-robots-could-remove-carbon-dioxide-oceans/.

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. 1970. Allowances for Independent Research and Development Costs in Negotiated Contracts. 094461. 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

Crivello, Antonino. 2009. “DNA Methylation of the Interferon-Gamma Promoter in Association with Overexpression of the Interferon-Gamma Gene in Periodontal Disease.” Doctoral dissertation, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina.

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

Williams, John. 2017. “Mandela’s Prison Letters Are to Be Published.” New York Times, June 27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bohannon 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bohannon 2015; Kronenberg and Rudensky 2005).

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

Two authors: (Kronenberg and Rudensky 2005)
Three authors: (Tamsir, Tabor, and Voigt 2011)
4 or more authors: (Schumer et al. 2018)

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