How to format your references using the Journal of Scheduling citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Scheduling. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Borniger, J. C. (2015). Leaping into the unknown. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6262), 882.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lister, A. M., & Sher, A. V. (2001). The origin and evolution of the woolly mammoth. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5544), 1094–1097.

A journal article with 3 authors

Biastoch, A., Böning, C. W., & Lutjeharms, J. R. E. (2008). Agulhas leakage dynamics affects decadal variability in Atlantic overturning circulation. Nature, 456(7221), 489–492.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Cash, H. L., Whitham, C. V., Behrendt, C. L., & Hooper, L. V. (2006). Symbiotic bacteria direct expression of an intestinal bactericidal lectin. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5790), 1126–1130.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kroese, D. P., Taimre, T., Botev, Z. I., & Rubinstein, R. Y. (2007). Simulation and the Monte Carlo Method: Solutions Manual to Accompany. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Huang, X., Xiang, Y., & Li, K.-C. (Eds.). (2016). Green, Pervasive, and Cloud Computing: 11th International Conference, GPC 2016, Xi’an, China, May 6-8, 2016. Proceedings (Vol. 9663). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Di Gaspero, L., Gärtner, J., Musliu, N., Schaerf, A., Schafhauser, W., & Slany, W. (2013). Automated Shift Design and Break Scheduling. In A. S. Uyar, E. Ozcan, & N. Urquhart (Eds.), Automated Scheduling and Planning: From Theory to Practice (pp. 109–127). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Scheduling.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, March 23). Dopamine Makes Us Less Tolerant Of Inequality. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/dopamine-makes-us-less-tolerant-inequality/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1988). Space Operations: Testing of NASA’s Technical and Management Information System (No. IMTEC-88-28). 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

Weitkunat, S. (2015). Facies and Log Analysis of the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale (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

Grynbaum, M. M. (2017, August 16). ‘Wow’: Stunned Cable News Hosts Reacted in Real Time to Trump. New York Times, p. B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Borniger 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Borniger 2015; Lister and Sher 2001).

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

Two authors: (Lister and Sher 2001)
Three or more authors: (Cash et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Scheduling
Abbreviation	J. Sched.
ISSN (print)	1094-6136
ISSN (online)	1099-1425
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Software Management Science and Operations Research General Engineering