How to format your references using the Journal of the Operations Research Society of China citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Operations Research Society of China. 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

Cheianov, V.V.: Physics. When infinity does not count. Science. 323, 213–214 (2009)

A journal article with 2 authors

de Bono, J.S., Ashworth, A.: Translating cancer research into targeted therapeutics. Nature. 467, 543–549 (2010)

A journal article with 3 authors

Martin-Lluesma, S., Stucke, V.M., Nigg, E.A.: Role of Hec1 in spindle checkpoint signaling and kinetochore recruitment of Mad1/Mad2. Science. 297, 2267–2270 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Coen, A., Cincotta, R.P., Bloom, D., Canning, D.: Family planning programs and national prosperity. Science. 288, 1747d–8d (2000)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pesavento, L., Smoleny, S.: A Trader’s Guide to Financial Astrology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2015)

An edited book

Finkbeiner, M. ed: Special Types of Life Cycle Assessment. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Bowers, C., Cannon-Bowers, J., Hussain, T.: Considering User Knowledge in the Evaluation of Training System Usability. In: Kurosu, M. (ed.) Human Centered Design: First International Conference, HCD 2009, Held as Part of HCI International 2009, San Diego, CA, USA, July 19-24, 2009 Proceedings. pp. 27–30. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009)

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 the Operations Research Society of China.

Blog post

Fang, J.: Revealed: how baby sea turtles spend their “lost years”

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: Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness of the Telecommunications Industry. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1999)

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Fine, J.G.: Magical Transformation or Illusion of Grandeur: The Development of Downtown West Palm Beach, 1985-2015, (2017)

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

Shultz, G.P.: O’Reilly, Wrong on Reagan, (2015)

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Operations Research Society of China
Abbreviation	J. Oper. Res. Soc. China
ISSN (print)	2194-668X
ISSN (online)	2194-6698
Scope	General Decision Sciences

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