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

Balents, L. Physics. The Impact of Ionic Frustration on Electronic Order. Science 2012, 336, 547–548.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liberman, N.; Trope, Y. The Psychology of Transcending the Here and Now. Science 2008, 322, 1201–1205.

A journal article with 3 authors

Finkel, T.; Deng, C.-X.; Mostoslavsky, R. Recent Progress in the Biology and Physiology of Sirtuins. Nature 2009, 460, 587–591.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sigal, A.; Milo, R.; Cohen, A.; Geva-Zatorsky, N.; Klein, Y.; Liron, Y.; Rosenfeld, N.; Danon, T.; Perzov, N.; Alon, U. Variability and Memory of Protein Levels in Human Cells. Nature 2006, 444, 643–646.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chan, N.H.; Wong, H.Y. Handbook of Financial Risk Management; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2013; ISBN 9781118573570.

An edited book

Synthesis of Saturated Oxygenated Heterocycles II: 7- to 16-Membered Rings; Cossy, J., Ed.; Topics in Heterocyclic Chemistry; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014; Vol. 36; ISBN 9783642414695.

A chapter in an edited book

Havlena, M.; Heller, J.; Kayser, H.; Bach, J.-H.; Anemüller, J.; Pajdla, T. Incongruence Detection in Audio-Visual Processing. In Detection and Identification of Rare Audiovisual Cues; Weinshall, D., Anemüller, J., Gool, L. van, Eds.; Studies in Computational Intelligence; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; pp. 67–75 ISBN 9783642240331.

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

Fang, J. Rice May Have Been Domesticated Three Separate Times Across Asia (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 Pipeline Safety: Additional Actions Could Improve Federal Use of Data on Pipeline Materials and Corrosion; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2017;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Johnson, R. Grounding Theatricality in Reality: The Creation of the Role of Suzie in “Current Nobody.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 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

Antilla, S. Fund Settlement. New York Times 2015, B7.

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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