How to format your references using the International Journal of Production Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Production Economics. 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

Berner, R.A., 2003. The long-term carbon cycle, fossil fuels and atmospheric composition. Nature 426, 323–326.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gupta, V., Poss, K.D., 2012. Clonally dominant cardiomyocytes direct heart morphogenesis. Nature 484, 479–484.

A journal article with 3 authors

Briggman, K.L., Helmstaedter, M., Denk, W., 2011. Wiring specificity in the direction-selectivity circuit of the retina. Nature 471, 183–188.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sternberg, A., Gal-Yam, A., Simon, J.D., Leonard, D.C., Quimby, R.M., Phillips, M.M., Morrell, N., Thompson, I.B., Ivans, I., Marshall, J.L., Filippenko, A.V., Marcy, G.W., Bloom, J.S., Patat, F., Foley, R.J., Yong, D., Penprase, B.E., Beeler, D.J., Allende Prieto, C., Stringfellow, G.S., 2011. Circumstellar material in type Ia supernovae via sodium absorption features. Science 333, 856–859.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hopp, V., 2000. Grundlagen der Life Sciences. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Agarwal, R., Selen, W., Roos, G., Green, R. (Eds.), 2015. The Handbook of Service Innovation. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, X., Liang, S., Li, W., Zhou, D., 2012. High Speed Train Bogie Wheel-Rail Relative Vibration with Bench Reconstruction Technology, in: Ni, Y.-Q., Ye, X.-W. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on High-Speed and Intercity Railways: Volume 1, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 39–49.

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 Production Economics.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2015. Galaxies Die By Suffocation [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/galaxies-die-suffocation/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2010. Next Generation Air Transportation System: Challenges with Partner Agency and FAA Coordination Continue, and Efforts to Integrate Near-, Mid-, and Long-term Activities Are Ongoing (No. GAO-10-649T). 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

Corbin-Staton, A.P., 2009. Contexts of parental involvement: An interpretive synthesis of qualitative literature using the meta-interpretation method (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Kang, C., de la MERCED, M.J., 2017. AT&T’s Blockbuster Bid For Time Warner Is in Limbo. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Berner, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Berner, 2003; Gupta and Poss, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Gupta and Poss, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Sternberg et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Production Economics
Abbreviation	Int. J. Prod. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0925-5273
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting Management Science and Operations Research Economics and Econometrics Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering