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]

S. Salzberg, The contents of the syringe, Nature 454 (2008) 160–161.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. Margoliash, O. Tchernichovski, DEVELOPMENT. Marmoset kids actually listen, Science 349 (2015) 688–689.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E.A. Oliveira, J.S. Andrade Jr, H.A. Makse, Large cities are less green, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4235.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.S. Dhillon, C.J. Cockcroft, T. Munsey, K.J. Smith, A.J. Powell, P. Carter, D.C. Wrighton, H.-L. Rong, S.P. Yusaf, A. Sivaprasadarao, A functional Kv1.2-hERG chimaeric channel expressed in Pichia pastoris, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4201.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

U. Deichmann, Flüchten, Mitmachen, Vergessen, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

A. Schroeder, C.E. Willert, eds., Particle Image Velocimetry: New Developments and Recent Applications, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V. Solonnikov, On Problem of Stability of Equilibrium Figures of Uniformly Rotating Viscous Incompressible Liquid, in: C. Bardos, A. Fursikov (Eds.), Instability in Models Connected with Fluid Flows II, Springer, New York, NY, 2008: pp. 189–254.

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]

S. Luntz, Textbooks Have Been Getting Fern Sex Wrong, Paper Claims, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/textbooks-have-been-getting-fern-sex-wrong-paper-claims/ (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, National Transportation Safety Board: Progress Made, Yet Management Practices, Investigation Priorities, and Training Center Use Should Be Improved, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.G. Vickovic, Medical marijuana and the media, 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]

G. Vecsey, Mets and Marines Share a Day, New York Times (2010) B12.

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