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

Braun, D.C., 2012. Comment on “Detection of emerging sunspot regions in the solar interior.” Science 336, 296; author reply 296.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reader, J.S., Joyce, G.F., 2002. A ribozyme composed of only two different nucleotides. Nature 420, 841–844.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kalokairinou, L., Howard, H.C., Borry, P., 2014. Science and Regulation. Changes on the horizon for consumer genomics in the EU. Science 346, 296–298.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tanaka, H., Okano, Y., Kobayashi, H., Suzuki, W., Kobayashi, A., 2001. A three-dimensional synthetic metallic crystal composed of single-component molecules. Science 291, 285–287.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cotarca, L., Eckert, H., 2005. Phosgenations - A Handbook. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Leibe, B., Matas, J., Sebe, N., Welling, M. (Eds.), 2016. Computer Vision – ECCV 2016: 14th European Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 11–14, 2016, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Høholdt, T., 2006. The Merit Factor Problem for Binary Sequences, in: Fossorier, M.P.C., Imai, H., Lin, S., Poli, A. (Eds.), Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms and Error-Correcting Codes: 16th International Symposium, AAECC-16, Las Vegas, NV, USA, February 20-24, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 51–59.

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., 2014. SpaceX Launch Currently A Go [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, 1995. Trans-Alaska Pipeline: Actions to Improve Safety Are Under Way (No. RCED-95-162). 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

Alsari, F., 2015. Training needs analysis for women in educational leadership in Saudi Arabia (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Higgins, A., 2013. $24 Million Insurance Paid on Stolen Art. New York Times A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Braun, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Braun, 2012; Reader and Joyce, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Reader and Joyce, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Tanaka et al., 2001)

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