How to format your references using the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Purchasing and Supply 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

Cheung, F., 2011. Modern TCM: Enter the clinic. Nature 480, S94-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sieweke, M.H., Allen, J.E., 2013. Beyond stem cells: self-renewal of differentiated macrophages. Science 342, 1242974.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, Z.-Z., Zhang, F.-C., Wang, Q.-H., 2014. Majorana modes in a topological insulator/s-wave superconductor heterostructure. Sci. Rep. 4, 6363.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Römpler, H., Rohland, N., Lalueza-Fox, C., Willerslev, E., Kuznetsova, T., Rabeder, G., Bertranpetit, J., Schöneberg, T., Hofreiter, M., 2006. Nuclear gene indicates coat-color polymorphism in mammoths. Science 313, 62.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hermans, J., Lentz, B., 2013. Equilibria and Kinetics of Biological Macromolecules. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bui, L.T., Ong, Y.S., Hoai, N.X., Ishibuchi, H., Suganthan, P.N. (Eds.), 2012. Simulated Evolution and Learning: 9th International Conference, SEAL 2012, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 16-19, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Rosen, J., 2015. Isomorphism Theorems: Markov Processes, Gaussian Processes and Beyond, in: Gayrard, V., Kistler, N. (Eds.), Correlated Random Systems: Five Different Methods: CIRM Jean-Morlet Chair, Spring 2013, Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 121–177.

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 Purchasing and Supply Management.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2016. What Have Cats Ever Done For Us? [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, 2005. Aviation Safety: FAA’s Safety Oversight System Is Effective but Could Benefit from Better Evaluation of Its Programs’ Performance (No. GAO-06-266T). 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

Edwards, D.H., 2017. Why Do They Get High?: An Examination of Social Bond Theory and Substance Use in College (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

Saslow, L., 2006. School Chief, Never Accused, Quits After Scandal. New York Times 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cheung, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Cheung, 2011; Sieweke and Allen, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Sieweke and Allen, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Römpler et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management
Abbreviation	J. Purch. Supply Manag.
ISSN (print)	1478-4092
Scope	Marketing Strategy and Management