How to format your references using the Journal of Operations Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Operations Management. 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

Hoag, H., 2015. Molecular biology: Marked progress. Nature 527, S114-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Budd, G.E., Telford, M.J., 2009. The origin and evolution of arthropods. Nature 457, 812–817.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bonasio, R., Tu, S., Reinberg, D., 2010. Molecular signals of epigenetic states. Science 330, 612–616.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gan, B., Hu, J., Jiang, S., Liu, Y., Sahin, E., Zhuang, L., Fletcher-Sananikone, E., Colla, S., Wang, Y.A., Chin, L., Depinho, R.A., 2010. Lkb1 regulates quiescence and metabolic homeostasis of haematopoietic stem cells. Nature 468, 701–704.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blumberg, L.M., 2010. Temperature-Programmed Gas Chromatography. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Düh, J., Hufnagl, H., Juritsch, E., Pfliegl, R., Schimany, H.-K., Schönegger, H. (Eds.), 2010. Data and Mobility: Transforming Information into Intelligent Traffic and Transportation Services Proceedings of the Lakeside Conference 2010, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Aydelotte, B., Schuster, B., 2016. Observation and Modeling of Cone Cracks in Ceramics, in: Song, B., Lamberson, L., Casem, D., Kimberley, J. (Eds.), Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 19–23.

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 Journal of Operations Management.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Why Do Bats Transmit So Many Diseases? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-do-bats-transmit-so-many-diseases/ (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, 1999. Month In Review, August 1999: Reports, Testimony, Correspondence, and Other Publications (No. OPA-99-11). 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

Wang, S., 2017. Experimental Investigations of the Critical Flowback Velocity for Various Types of Proppant in Hydraulic-Fracturing Fluids with Different Viscosities (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

Gregory Mankiw, N., Summers, L.H., 2015. Uniting Behind a Divisive Health Tax. New York Times BU6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoag, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Budd and Telford, 2009; Hoag, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Budd and Telford, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Gan et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Operations Management
Abbreviation	J. Oper. Manage.
ISSN (print)	0272-6963
Scope	Strategy and Management Management Science and Operations Research Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering