How to format your references using the Omega citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Omega. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

Clarke J. Paleontology. Feathers before flight. Science 2013;340:690–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ardejani MS, Orner BP. Materials science. Obey the peptide assembly rules. Science 2013;340:561–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Didham RK, Ewers RM, Gemmell NJ. Comment on “Avian extinction and mammalian introductions on oceanic islands.” Science 2005;307:1412; author reply 1412.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Courcelle J, Donaldson JR, Chow K-H, Courcelle CT. DNA damage-induced replication fork regression and processing in Escherichia coli. Science 2003;299:1064–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Peinado AM, Segura JC. Speech Recognition Over Digital Channels. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Dontchev AL. Implicit Functions and Solution Mappings: A View from Variational Analysis. New York, NY: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Cataudella V, De Filippis G, Perroni CA. Single Polaron Properties in Different Electron Phonon Models. In: Alexandrov AS, editor. Polarons in Advanced Materials, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007, p. 149–89.

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 Omega.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. Does Green Mucus Mean You’re Infectious And Need Antibiotics? IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/does-green-mucus-mean-youre-infectious-and-need-antibiotics/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Status of Farmers Home Administration Efforts To Install Office Automation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Stefania S. From Italian American Icon to Working Class Hero: Perspectives on Pietro di Donato’s “Christ in Concrete.” Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Tackett M. Virginia Election May Hinge on Immigrants. Will They Vote? New York Times 2017:A17.

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	Omega
ISSN (print)	0305-0483
Scope	Strategy and Management Information Systems and Management Management Science and Operations Research