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

Lucht RP (2007) Chemistry. Femtosecond lasers for molecular measurements. Science 316:207–208

A journal article with 2 authors

Pilkey OH, Cooper JAG (2004) Climate. Society and sea level rise. Science 303:1781–1782

A journal article with 3 authors

Dudley AT, Ros MA, Tabin CJ (2002) A re-examination of proximodistal patterning during vertebrate limb development. Nature 418:539–544

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Li R, Yi H, Hu X, et al (2013) Generation of diffraction-free optical beams using wrinkled membranes. Sci Rep 3:2775

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matloff R, Chaillou JH (2013) Nonprofit Investment and Development Solutions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Esquinas AM (ed) (2010) Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation: Theory, Equipment, and Clinical Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Fernández de Cañete J, Galindo C, Moral IG (2011) System Response Analysis. In: Galindo C, Moral IG (eds) System Engineering and Automation: An Interactive Educational Approach. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 85–136

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

Carpineti A (2017) Atmospheric Winds Could Help Us Study The Magnetic Field Of Exoplanets. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/atmospheric-winds-could-help-us-study-the-magnetic-field-of-exoplanets/. 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 (2007) Federal Aviation Administration: Challenges Facing the Agency in Fiscal Year 2008 and Beyond. 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

Gnoinska MK (2010) Poland and the Cold War in East and Southeast Asia, 1949-1965. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Swanson A (2017) Internal Discord Hinders Trump’s Trade Agenda. New York Times A12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lucht 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Pilkey and Cooper 2004; Lucht 2007).

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

Two authors: (Pilkey and Cooper 2004)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2013)

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