How to format your references using the Operations Research Perspectives citation style

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

Schiermeier Q. Review panel assails Brussels research bureaucracy. Nature 2000;406:336.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Xie J, Black DL. A CaMK IV responsive RNA element mediates depolarization-induced alternative splicing of ion channels. Nature 2001;410:936–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Goldfarb DJ, Glasser BJ, Shinbrot T. Shear instabilities in granular flows. Nature 2002;415:302–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ward PD, Haggart JW, Carter ES, Wilbur D, Tipper HW, Evans T. Sudden productivity collapse associated with the Triassic-Jurassic boundary mass extinction. Science 2001;292:1148–51.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Valiev RZ, Zhilyaev AP, Langdon TG. Bulk Nanostructured Materials. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Bull R, editor. Investigative Interviewing. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hudson WM, Pagliassotti MJ. Oxidative Stress and the Unfolded Protein Response in the Liver. In: Albano E, Parola M, editors. Studies on Hepatic Disorders, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 113–22.

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 Perspectives.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. US Supreme Court Upholds Use of Controversial Lethal Injection Drug. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/us-supreme-court-upholds-use-controversial-lethal-injection-drug/ (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. Traffic Safety: Alcohol Ignition Interlocks Are Effective While Installed; Less Is Known about How to Increase Installation Rates. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Stott NM. Beta cell compensatory factors in nicotinic acid-induced insulin resistance. 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]

Cooper M. In ‘Julius Caesar,’ an Assassination Echoes Across the Centuries. New York Times 2017:A1.

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 Perspectives
Abbreviation	Oper. Res. Perspect.
ISSN (print)	2214-7160
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