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. Cairns, The usefulness of parody, Nature 428 (2004) 23.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.D. Spalding, B.E. Brown, Warm-water coral reefs and climate change, Science 350 (2015) 769–771.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N.E. Vaccari, G.D. Edgecombe, C. Escudero, Cambrian origins and affinities of an enigmatic fossil group of arthropods, Nature 430 (2004) 554–557.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A.S. Feng, P.M. Narins, C.-H. Xu, W.-Y. Lin, Z.-L. Yu, Q. Qiu, Z.-M. Xu, J.-X. Shen, Ultrasonic communication in frogs, Nature 440 (2006) 333–336.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Gasch, B. Gasch, Successfully Choosing Your EMR, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

J.C. Setubal, S. Verjovski-Almeida, eds., Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2005, Sao Leopoldo, Brazil, July 27-29, 2005. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G.P. Morris, T. Mohanakumar, Clinical Evaluation of Alloantibodies in Solid Organ Transplantation, in: H. Liapis, H.L. Wang (Eds.), Pathology of Solid Organ Transplantation, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 45–56.

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]

E. Andrew, New human body part discovered, IFLScience (2013). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-human-body-part-discovered/ (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, Amtrak: Contracting Improprieties by Chief Engineer, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R.B. Farnham, Processing and inpainting of sparse data as applied to atomic force microscopy imaging, 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]

S. Kishkovsky, Salvage Teams Begin to Raise Russian Sub, New York Times (2001) A8.

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