How to format your references using the Logistics Research citation style

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

Bowman JM (2008) Chemistry. Beyond Born-Oppenheimer. Science 319:40–41

A journal article with 2 authors

Carbone C, Gittleman JL (2002) A common rule for the scaling of carnivore density. Science 295:2273–2276

A journal article with 3 authors

Bobrov K, Mayne AJ, Dujardin G (2001) Atomic-scale imaging of insulating diamond through resonant electron injection. Nature 413:616–619

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Liu KJ, Arron JR, Stankunas K, et al (2007) Chemical rescue of cleft palate and midline defects in conditional GSK-3beta mice. Nature 446:79–82

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bajpai P (2010) Environmentally Friendly Production of Pulp and Paper. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Scales DC, Rubenfeld GD (2014) The Organization of Critical Care: An Evidence-Based Approach to Improving Quality. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Aribi N, Lebbah Y (2013) Exact Approaches for Parameter Elicitation in Lexicographic Ordering. In: Perny P, Pirlot M, Tsoukiàs A (eds) Algorithmic Decision Theory: Third International Conference, ADT 2013, Bruxelles, Belgium, November 12-14, 2013, Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 45–56

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 Research.

Blog post

Andrew E (2013) More evidence for the possibility of ancient life on Mars. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/more-evidence-possibility-ancient-life-mars/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2007) Public Transportation: Future Demand Is Likely for New Starts and Small Starts Programs, but Improvements Needed to the Small Starts Application Process. 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

Brothers J (2009) Nonparametric regression using wavelet transformations and noise reduction in audio signals. 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

Brantley B (2017) Prospero, Confined Yet Commanding. New York Times C6

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 Research
Abbreviation	Logist. Res.
ISSN (print)	1865-035X
ISSN (online)	1865-0368
Scope	Management Information Systems Computer Science Applications Information Systems Management Science and Operations Research Control and Systems Engineering