How to format your references using the Journal of Operations Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Operations Management. 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

Gächter, S., 2015. Behavioural economics: Visible inequality breeds more inequality. Nature 526, 333–334.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jordan, K.D., Johnson, M.A., 2010. Chemistry. Downsizing the hydrated electron’s lair. Science 329, 42–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hulleman, F., van Kerkwijk, M.H., Kulkarni, S.R., 2000. An optical counterpart to the anomalous X-ray pulsar 4U0142+61. Nature 408, 689–692.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Anderson, J.D., Schubert, G., Jacobson, R.A., Lau, E.L., Moore, W.B., Palguta, J.L., 2004. Discovery of mass anomalies on Ganymede. Science 305, 989–991.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Golding, P., 2005. Next Generation Wireless Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Vassighi, A., 2006. Thermal and Power Management of Integrated Circuits, Series on Integrated Circuits and Systems. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Hillebrenner, M.G., Chen, E.A., Faris, O.P., O’Callaghan, K.M., 2009. The FDA Perspective on Heart Failure Devices, in: Maisel, W.H. (Ed.), Device Therapy in Heart Failure. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 89–117.

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 Journal of Operations Management.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Invasive “Walking” Fish That Suffocates Its Predators May Be Coming For Australia [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/resilient-climbing-perch-may-be-coming-australia/ (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, 1991. Aircraft Maintenance: Additional FAA Oversight Needed of Aging Aircraft Repairs (Vol. II) (No. RCED-91-91B). 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

Tablason, J.M., 2014. Recollecting (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2007. Judge Selection To Be Reviewed By U.S. Justices. 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 (Gächter, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Gächter, 2015; Jordan and Johnson, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Jordan and Johnson, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Anderson et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Operations Management
Abbreviation	J. Oper. Manage.
ISSN (print)	0272-6963
Scope	Strategy and Management Management Science and Operations Research Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering