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

Cohen J (2015) AIDS. No end in sight. Science 349:230–231

A journal article with 2 authors

Rilling JK, Young LJ (2014) The biology of mammalian parenting and its effect on offspring social development. Science 345:771–776

A journal article with 3 authors

Kurth I, Georgescu RE, O’Donnell ME (2013) A solution to release twisted DNA during chromosome replication by coupled DNA polymerases. Nature 496:119–122

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhang C, Koepke J, Kirchner C, et al (2014) Rapid hydrothermal cooling above the axial melt lens at fast-spreading mid-ocean ridge. Sci Rep 4:6342

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rahman ROA, Rakhimov RZ, Rakhimova NR, Ojovan MI (2014) Cementitious Materials for Nuclear Waste Immobilization. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Rossitto C, Ciolfi L, Martin D, Conein B (2014) COOP 2014 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, 27-30 May 2014, Nice (France). Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Power C (2006) BASIC EDUCATION FOR ALL. In: Campbell J, Baikaloff N, Power C (eds) Towards a Global Community: Educating for Tomorrow’s World. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 71–80

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

Davis J (2015) E-Cigarette Vapor Has Similar Effect On Respiratory Tract As Air, According To Tobacco Company. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/e-cigarettes-vapor-has-similar-effect-respiratory-tract-air-according-tobacco/. 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 (1993) Maritime Industry: Federal Assessments Levied on Commercial Vessels. 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

Gibb A (2012) Implementing U.S. security strategy in the 21st century: A three-part examination of the evolving role of the military in American foreign and security policy. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Schmidt MS (2017) In a Private Dinner, Trump Demanded Loyalty. Comey Demurred. New York Times A1

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