How to format your references using the International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications. 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 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

Vanmaekelbergh, Daniel. 2015. “Materials Science: Superlattice Substitution.” Nature 524 (7566): 418–419.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bayer, Ronald, and James Colgrove. 2002. “Public Health vs. Civil Liberties.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 297 (5588): 1811.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, Qi, Yulong Li, and Richard W. Tsien. 2009. “The Dynamic Control of Kiss-and-Run and Vesicular Reuse Probed with Single Nanoparticles.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 323 (5920): 1448–1453.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Johnston, Christopher A., Brenda R. Temple, Jin-Gui Chen, Yajun Gao, Etsuko N. Moriyama, Alan M. Jones, David P. Siderovski, and Francis S. Willard. 2007. “Comment on ‘A G Protein Coupled Receptor Is a Plasma Membrane Receptor for the Plant Hormone Abscisic Acid.’” Science (New York, N.Y.) 318 (5852): 914; author reply 914.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahlemeyer-Stubbe, Andrea, and Shirley Coleman. 2014. A Practical Guide to Data Mining for Business and Industry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Moemeka, Edward. 2015. Real World Windows 10 Development. Second Edition. Edited by Elizabeth Moemeka. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Vadász, Peter. 2008. “Analytical Transition to Weak Turbulence and Chaotic Natural Convection in Porous Media.” In Emerging Topics in Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media: From Bioengineering and Microelectronics to Nanotechnology, edited by Peter Vadász, 111–132. Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Lone Grand Canyon Wolf Confirmed Dead.” IFLScience, IFLScience, February 12.

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. 2005. Technology Development: New DOD Space Science and Technology Strategy Provides Basis for Optimizing Investments, but Future Versions Need to Be More Robust. GAO-05-155. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lopez, Cesar. 2015. “A Community-Based Outreach Program for Latinos in Los Angeles County Supporting Mental Health Awareness and Treatment: A Grant Proposal.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Lee, Linda. 2014. “Loving Trees, Even the Messy Ones.” New York Times, April 3, 2014.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vanmaekelbergh 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Vanmaekelbergh 2015; Bayer and Colgrove 2002).

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

Two authors: (Bayer and Colgrove 2002)
Three authors: (Zhang, Li, and Tsien 2009)
4 or more authors: (Johnston et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications
Abbreviation	Int. J. Logist.
ISSN (print)	1367-5567
ISSN (online)	1469-848X
Scope	Management Information Systems Computer Science Applications Information Systems Management Science and Operations Research Control and Systems Engineering