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

Brenner, S. E. (2007). Common sense for our genomes. Nature, 449(7164), 783–784.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bell, J. J., & Bhandoola, A. (2008). The earliest thymic progenitors for T cells possess myeloid lineage potential. Nature, 452(7188), 764–767.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bonabeau, E., Dorigo, M., & Theraulaz, G. (2000). Inspiration for optimization from social insect behaviour. Nature, 406(6791), 39–42.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Mazurek, M. D., Schreiter, K. M., Prevedel, R., Kaltenbaek, R., & Resch, K. J. (2013). Dispersion-cancelled biological imaging with quantum-inspired interferometry. Scientific reports, 3, 1582.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lalanne, C. (2014). Mechanical Shock. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Sergienko, V. P. (2015). Noise and Vibration in Friction Systems. (S. N. Bukharov, Ed.) (Vol. 212). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Hanson, G. R., Noble, C. J., & Benson, S. (2013). XSophe – Sophe – XeprView and Molecular Sophe: Computer Simulation Software Suites for the Analysis of Continuous Wave and Pulsed EPR and ENDOR Spectra. In A. Lund & M. Shiotani (Eds.), EPR of Free Radicals in Solids I: Trends in Methods and Applications (pp. 223–283). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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. (2014, August 20). What I Learned From Debating Science With Trolls. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-i-learned-debating-science-trolls/. 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. (1986). Implementation of the Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1982 (No. 130406). 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

Cao, Y. (2006). Morphological and Functional Characterization of the Neurotransmitter GABA in Adult Rat Taste Buds (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Savodnik, P. (2013, February 8). If They Build It, Will The Kardashians Come? New York Times, p. MM32.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brenner 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Bell and Bhandoola 2008; Brenner 2007).

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

Two authors: (Bell and Bhandoola 2008)
Three or more authors: (Mazurek et al. 2013)

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

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