How to format your references using the Surveys in Operations Research and Management Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Surveys in Operations Research and Management Science. 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	Download the output style file
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]

A. Feduccia, Fossils and avian evolution, Nature 414 (2001) 507–508.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.R. Piperno, K.E. Stothert, Phytolith evidence for early Holocene Cucurbita domestication in southwest Ecuador, Science 299 (2003) 1054–1057.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.H. Sherman, S. Tsukamoto, R.M. Williams, ORGANIC SYNTHESIS. Comment on “Asymmetric syntheses of sceptrin and massadine and evidence for biosynthetic enantiodivergence,” Science 349 (2015) 149.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Sun, U. Ringdahl, J.W. Homeister, W.P. Fay, N.C. Engleberg, A.Y. Yang, L.S. Rozek, X. Wang, U. Sjöbring, D. Ginsburg, Plasminogen is a critical host pathogenicity factor for group A streptococcal infection, Science 305 (2004) 1283–1286.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. Bourlès, Linear Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Y. Zhang, ed., Future Wireless Networks and Information Systems: Volume 1, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Bhattacharya, K.P. Ghatak, Field Emission from Superlattices of Nonparabolic Semiconductors Under Magnetic Quantization, in: K.P. Ghatak (Ed.), Fowler-Nordheim Field Emission: Effects in Semiconductor Nanostructures, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 157–184.

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 Surveys in Operations Research and Management Science.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Staring Into Someone’s Eyes For 10 Minutes Can Alter Your Consciousness, IFLScience (2015).

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, Railroad Safety: FRA Needs to Correct Deficiencies in Reporting Injuries and Accidents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

H.D. Ghafoori, Working with Muslim children and families: A training program for child welfare social workers, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

L. Greenhouse, Court Upholds Child Pornography Law, Despite Free Speech Concerns, New York Times (2008) A17.

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	Surveys in Operations Research and Management Science
ISSN (print)	1876-7354
Scope	Computer Science Applications Information Systems Management Science and Operations Research Economics and Econometrics