How to format your references using the INFORMS Journal on Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for INFORMS Journal on Computing. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Ball P (2014) Culture: Artistic alchemy. Nature 512(7512):26–27.

A journal article with 2 authors

Burton DR, Weiss RA (2010) AIDS/HIV. A boost for HIV vaccine design. Science 329(5993):770–773.

A journal article with 3 authors

Trillo S, Gongora JST, Fratalocchi A (2014) Wave instabilities in the presence of non vanishing background in nonlinear Schrödinger systems. Sci. Rep. 4:7285.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Liu S, Guo X, Wu B, Yu H, Zhang X, Li M (2014) Arsenic induces diabetic effects through beta-cell dysfunction and increased gluconeogenesis in mice. Sci. Rep. 4:6894.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Estopinal SV, Lathrop W (2011) Professional Surveyors and Real Property Descriptions (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey).

An edited book

Brahnam S, Jain LC eds. (2011) Advanced Computational Intelligence Paradigms in Healthcare 5: Intelligent Decision Support Systems (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg).

A chapter in an edited book

Kubicek H, Cimander R, Scholl HJ (2011) Interdependencies in E-Government and Their Interoperability Requirements. Cimander R, Scholl HJ, eds. Organizational Interoperability in E-Government: Lessons from 77 European Good-Practice Cases (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg), 71–78.

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 INFORMS Journal on Computing.

Blog post

Carpineti C (2016) NASA Just Released Some Seriously Cool Videos Of Fire In Microgravity. IFLScience. Retrieved (October 30, 2018), https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-just-released-some-seriously-cool-videos-of-fire-in-microgravity-/.

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

Government Accountability Office (2008) Federal-Aid Highways: Increased Reliance on Contractors Can Pose Oversight Challenges for Federal and State Officials (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Keels D (2014) An Analysis of the Correlation between Teacher Effectiveness and Student Standardized Test Scores. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Sisario B (2016) ‘Hamilton Mixtape’ No. 1 on Chart. New York Times (December 12).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Ball 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Burton and Weiss 2010, Ball 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Burton and Weiss 2010)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	INFORMS Journal on Computing
ISSN (print)	1091-9856
ISSN (online)	1526-5528
Scope	General Engineering Computer Science Applications Information Systems Software Management Science and Operations Research