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]

M.A. Moritz, Wildfires ignite debate on global warming, Nature. 487 (2012) 273.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P.J. Sutton, F.V. Kusmartsev, Gravitational vortices and clump formation in Saturn’s F ring during an encounter with Prometheus, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1276.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y. Hu, C.C. Lee, M.W. Ribbe, Extending the carbon chain: hydrocarbon formation catalyzed by vanadium/molybdenum nitrogenases, Science. 333 (2011) 753–755.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. Zhu, H. Li, X.C. Zeng, E.G. Wang, S. Meng, Quantized water transport: ideal desalination through graphyne-4 membrane, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3163.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. Wing, How Your House Works, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

B. Aranda, Facelets Essentials: Guide to JavaServer^TM Faces View Definition Framework, Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

N. Gusi, P.R. Olivares, R. Rajendram, The EQ-5D Health-Related Quality of Life Questionnaire, in: V.R. Preedy, R.R. Watson (Eds.), Handbook of Disease Burdens and Quality of Life Measures, Springer, New York, NY, 2010: pp. 87–99.

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, Mysterious X-Rays Could Mark Enormous Star Graveyard Surrounding Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/white-dwarves-discovered-surrounding-supermassive-black-hole-sagittarius/ (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, Weather Forecasting: Recommendations to Address New Weather Processing System Development Risks, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T. Nauman, Digital soil-landscape classification for soil survey using ASTER satellite and digital elevation data in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 2009.

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]

J. Koblin, CBS Anchor Bids Farewell, Then Is Asked to Leave, New York Times. (2017) B2.

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

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