How to format your references using the Logistics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Logistics. 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

Giessibl, F.J. Chemistry. Seeing the Reaction. Science 2013, 340, 1417–1418.

A journal article with 2 authors

Law, K.L.; Thompson, R.C. Oceans. Microplastics in the Seas. Science 2014, 345, 144–145.

A journal article with 3 authors

Loope, D.B.; Rowe, C.M.; Joeckel, R.M. Annual Monsoon Rains Recorded by Jurassic Dunes. Nature 2001, 412, 64–66.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Boross, P.; Dóra, B.; Kiss, A.; Simon, F. A Unified Theory of Spin-Relaxation Due to Spin-Orbit Coupling in Metals and Semiconductors. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 3233.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

James, L. Sustainability Footprints in SMEs; John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ, 2014; ISBN 9781118779477.

An edited book

Workforce Development: Strategies and Practices; Short, T., Harris, R., Eds.; Springer: Singapore, 2014; ISBN 9789812870674.

A chapter in an edited book

Galitsky, B.A.; Ilvovsky, D.; Kuznetsov, S.O.; Strok, F. Finding Maximal Common Sub-Parse Thickets for Multi-Sentence Search. In Graph Structures for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Third International Workshop, GKR 2013, Beijing, China, August 3, 2013. Revised Selected Papers; Croitoru, M., Rudolph, S., Woltran, S., Gonzales, C., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; pp. 39–57 ISBN 9783319045337.

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 Logistics.

Blog post

Fang, J. This Parasitic Flatworm Does Not Like the Tropics Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/parasitic-flatworm-does-not-tropics/ (accessed on 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office Information Technology Services: Agencies Complying with Revision to Federal Acquisition Regulation; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2002;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tate, K.J. Utilizing Canines in a Public School Setting: A Case Study. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University: St. Charles, MO, 2014.

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

Macintyre, B. The Fog of War. New York Times 2017, BR12.

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	Logistics
ISSN (online)	2305-6290
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