How to format your references using the Operations Research for Health Care citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Operations Research for Health Care. 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

[1]

J. Giles, Nanotechnology: what is there to fear from something so small?, Nature 426 (2003) 750.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

W.S. Paterson, N. Reeh, Thinning of the ice sheet in northwest Greenland over the past forty years, Nature 414 (2001) 60–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.H. Russell, M.P. Hancock, J. McCullough, The pipeline. Benefits of undergraduate research experiences, Science 316 (2007) 548–549.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K.J. Liu, J.R. Arron, K. Stankunas, G.R. Crabtree, M.T. Longaker, Chemical rescue of cleft palate and midline defects in conditional GSK-3beta mice, Nature 446 (2007) 79–82.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Y. Hase, Handbook of Power Systems Engineering with Power Electronics Applications, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

A.L. Hartzell, MEMS Reliability, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E.A. Stanko, P. Dawson, Step Four: A Thinking Professional, in: P. Dawson (Ed.), Police Use of Research Evidence: Recommendations for Improvement, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 23–24.

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 Research for Health Care.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, Scientists Remove 12 Centimeter Plastic STRAW From Sea Turtle’s Nose, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sea-turtle-12cm-plastic-straw-stuck-her-nose/ (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, FAA Information Technology: Complete Cost Data Not Provided to OMB, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Vento-Wilson, The role of the speech-language pathologist and augmentative and alternative communication with acute care patients with severe communication impairments, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

G. Vecsey, A Usual Suspect Slips Into a Party Owned by Outsiders, New York Times (2011) D3.

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	Operations Research for Health Care
Abbreviation	Oper. Res. Health Care
ISSN (print)	2211-6923
Scope	Otorhinolaryngology Surgery Oral Surgery