How to format your references using the Logistics Research citation style

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

Contreras JL (2010) Information access. Prepublication data release, latency, and genome commons. Science 329:393–394

A journal article with 2 authors

Ackland GJ, Butler D (2001) Pack formation in cycling and orienteering. Nature 413:127

A journal article with 3 authors

Sazonov SY, Lutovinov AA, Sunyaev RA (2004) An apparently normal gamma-ray burst with an unusually low luminosity. Nature 430:646–648

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hariri AR, Mattay VS, Tessitore A, et al (2002) Serotonin transporter genetic variation and the response of the human amygdala. Science 297:400–403

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Böhm M (2005) Symmetrien in Festkörpern. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

de Vries N, Ravesloot M, van Maanen JP (2015) Positional Therapy in Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Ahmed R, Boutaba R (2014) Availability. In: Boutaba R (ed) Collaborative Web Hosting: Challenges and Research Directions. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 45–55

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 Research.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2016) How Fish And Clean Water Can Protect Coral Reefs From Warming Oceans. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-fish-and-clean-water-can-protect-coral-reefs-from-warming-oceans/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1999) Truck Safety: Effectiveness of Motor Carriers Office Hampered by Data Problems and Slow Progress on Implementing Safety Initiatives. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ma D (2010) Acyclic congeners of Cucurbit[n]uril and a related mechanistic study on the Cucurbit[n]uril forming reaction. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Billard M (2014) Walking in Paint-Spattered Footsteps. New York Times E6

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 Research
Abbreviation	Logist. Res.
ISSN (print)	1865-035X
ISSN (online)	1865-0368
Scope	Management Information Systems Computer Science Applications Information Systems Management Science and Operations Research Control and Systems Engineering