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 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

Knight JC (2003) Photonic crystal fibres. Nature 424:847–851

A journal article with 2 authors

Frank T, Friedrich RW (2015) Neurobiology: Individuality sniffed out in flies. Nature 526:200–201

A journal article with 3 authors

Copley A, Avouac J-P, Wernicke BP (2011) Evidence for mechanical coupling and strong Indian lower crust beneath southern Tibet. Nature 472:79–81

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sinninghe Damsté JS, Strous M, Rijpstra WIC, et al (2002) Linearly concatenated cyclobutane lipids form a dense bacterial membrane. Nature 419:708–712

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Woolf V (2012) The Years. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Branzei R (2008) Models in Cooperative Game Theory, Second Edition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Giraud C (2012) Differential Fault Analysis of the Advanced Encryption Standard. In: Joye M, Tunstall M (eds) Fault Analysis in Cryptography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 55–72

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

Andrews R (2016) Volcanic Activity Has Freed The World From Multiple Frozen “Icehouse” States. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/volcanic-activity-has-freed-world-multiple-frozen-icehouse-states/. 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 (2008) Intellectual Property: Federal Enforcement Has Generally Increased, but Assessing Performance Could Strengthen Law Enforcement Efforts. 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

Teeter CM (2010) Characterizing the Spatial Density Functions of Neural Arbors. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Hartman S (2015) Love, Redeployed. New York Times MB1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Knight 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Knight 2003; Frank and Friedrich 2015).

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

Two authors: (Frank and Friedrich 2015)
Three or more authors: (Sinninghe Damsté et al. 2002)

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