How to format your references using the Operations Management Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Operations Management 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Peplow M (2013) Structure: the anatomy of sleep. Nature 497:S2-3

A journal article with 2 authors

Klenk H-D, Becker S (2015) VACCINES. Ebola virus vaccines--preparing for the unexpected. Science 349:693–694

A journal article with 3 authors

Dahl CD, Chen C-C, Rasch MJ (2014) Own-race and own-species advantages in face perception: a computational view. Sci Rep 4:6654

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Xiao Z, Sun K, Subbiah J, et al (2014) Hydrogen bonding in bulk heterojunction solar cells: a case study. Sci Rep 4:5701

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baker HK, English P (2011) Capital Budgeting Valuation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Zajda J, Freeman K, Geo-Jaja M, et al (eds) (2005) International Handbook on Globalisation, Education and Policy Research: Global Pedagogies and Policies. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Li Z, Yu D, Xiong W, et al (2006) Testing the higher-taxon approach: a case study of aquatic marcophytes in China’s northwest arid zone and its implications for conservation. In: Hawksworth DL, Bull AT (eds) Marine, Freshwater, and Wetlands Biodiversity Conservation. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 33–48

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 Operations Management Research.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) U.K. Doctors Propose A 20% Tax On Sugary Drinks. In: IFLScience. 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 (2002) Intercity Passenger Rail: Potential Financial Issues in the Event That Amtrak Undergoes Liquidation. 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

Rahimi RM (2014) Investigation of Porosity Evolution and Orthotropic Axes on Anisotropic Materials. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Crow K (2003) A Cultural Conundrum: The Chocolate Fortune Cookie. New York Times 146

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Peplow 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Peplow 2013; Klenk and Becker 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Klenk and Becker 2015)
Three or more authors: (Xiao et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Operations Management Research
Abbreviation	Oper. Manag. Res.
ISSN (print)	1936-9735
ISSN (online)	1936-9743
Scope	Management of Technology and Innovation Strategy and Management Management Science and Operations Research Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering