How to format your references using the Logistics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Logistics. 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

Kleppner, D. Physics. A Milestone in Time Keeping. Science 2008, 319, 1768–1769.

A journal article with 2 authors

Devery, J.J., 3rd; Stephenson, C.R.J. Catalysis: Dual Catalysis at the Flick of a Switch. Nature 2015, 519, 42–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

Depue, B.E.; Curran, T.; Banich, M.T. Prefrontal Regions Orchestrate Suppression of Emotional Memories via a Two-Phase Process. Science 2007, 317, 215–219.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zeng, H.; Li, J.; Liu, J.P.; Wang, Z.L.; Sun, S. Exchange-Coupled Nanocomposite Magnets by Nanoparticle Self-Assembly. Nature 2002, 420, 395–398.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kazovsky, L.G.; Cheng, N.; Shaw, W.-T.; Gutierrez, D.; Wong, S.-W. Broadband Optical Access Networks; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2011; ISBN 9780470910931.

An edited book

Enlightenment, Creativity and Education: Polities, Politics, Performances; Wikander, L., Gustafsson, C., Riis, U., Eds.; Comparative Education Society in Europe, Association d’Éducation Comparée en Europe,Gesellschaft für Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft in Europa; SensePublishers: Rotterdam, 2012; Vol. 19; ISBN 9789462090521.

A chapter in an edited book

Chambolle, A.; Morini, M.; Ponsiglione, M. Minimizing Movements and Level Set Approaches to Nonlocal Variational Geometric Flows. In Geometric Partial Differential Equations proceedings; Chambolle, A., Novaga, M., Valdinoci, E., Eds.; Scuola Normale Superiore: Pisa, 2013; pp. 93–104 ISBN 9788876424724.

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 Logistics.

Blog post

Davis, J. Ants Have Been Cultivating Plants In Fiji For Millions Of Years Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ants-have-been-cultivating-plants-in-fiji-for-millions-of-years/ (accessed on 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 Children’s Television Act: FCC Could Improve Efforts to Oversee Enforcement and Provide Public Information; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2011;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Goldner, V.R. Arizona Nurses’ Attitudes toward Legislated Minimum Staffing Ratios: Impact on the Workplace. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ, 2010.

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

Pilon, M. New Nets Announcer Shows Flair and Hair. New York Times 2011, B16.

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	Logistics
ISSN (online)	2305-6290
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