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

Smith, K., 2010. Treatment frontiers. Nature 466, S15-8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Heinze, S., Homberg, U., 2007. Maplike representation of celestial E-vector orientations in the brain of an insect. Science 315, 995–997.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ochedowski, O., Bussmann, B.K., Schleberger, M., 2014. Graphene on mica - intercalated water trapped for life. Sci. Rep. 4, 6003.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Leonardi, I., Li, X., Semon, A., Li, D., Doron, I., Putzel, G., Bar, A., Prieto, D., Rescigno, M., McGovern, D.P.B., Pla, J., Iliev, I.D., 2018. CX3CR1+ mononuclear phagocytes control immunity to intestinal fungi. Science 359, 232–236.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Memming, R., 2015. Semiconductor Electrochemistry. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Richardson, H.W., Pan, Q., Park, J., Moore, J.E., II (Eds.), 2015. Regional Economic Impacts of Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters and Metropolitan Policies, Advances in Spatial Science, The Regional Science Series. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Sartori, J., Kumar, R., 2010. Low-Overhead, High-Speed Multi-core Barrier Synchronization, in: Patt, Y.N., Foglia, P., Duesterwald, E., Faraboschi, P., Martorell, X. (Eds.), High Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers: 5th International Conference, HiPEAC 2010, Pisa, Italy, January 25-27, 2010. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 18–34.

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, E., 2015. Whale Nerves Can Stretch To Double Original Size [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, 1987. Bilingual Education: A New Look at the Research Evidence (No. PEMD-87-12BR). 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

Di Giacomo, F.A., 2010. Education amidst transition: The case of Romania (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Feeney, K., 2007. When Grease Is the Way You Are Feeling. New York Times NJ6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Heinze and Homberg, 2007; Smith, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Heinze and Homberg, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Leonardi et al., 2018)

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