How to format your references using the Operations Research Perspectives citation style

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

[1]

Cullen BR. Viral and cellular messenger RNA targets of viral microRNAs. Nature 2009;457:421–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bennett CH, DiVincenzo DP. Quantum information and computation. Nature 2000;404:247–55.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bruins HJ, van der Plicht J, Mazar A. 14C dates from Tel Rehov: Iron-Age chronology, pharaohs, and Hebrew kings. Science 2003;300:315–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Paul-Prasanth B, Bhandari RK, Kobayashi T, Horiguchi R, Kobayashi Y, Nakamoto M, et al. Estrogen oversees the maintenance of the female genetic program in terminally differentiated gonochorists. Sci Rep 2013;3:2862.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Rowe HE. Electromagnetic Propagation in Multi-Mode Random Media. New York, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2001.

An edited book

[1]

Alvo M. Statistical Methods for Ranking Data. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Geller W, Schultze M. Remediation and Management of Acidified Pit Lakes and Outflowing Waters. In: Geller W, Schultze M, Kleinmann R, Wolkersdorfer C, editors. Acidic Pit Lakes: The Legacy of Coal and Metal Surface Mines, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 225–64.

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 Operations Research Perspectives.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R. 1.85-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Impact Triggered Massive Volcanic Eruptions. IFLScience 2017.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Research and Development Funding: Reported Gap Between Data From Federal Agencies and Their R&D Performers Results From Noncomparable Data. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Yamada T. Comparison of cognitively diagnostic adaptive testing algorithms. Doctoral dissertation. Columbia University, 2008.

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

[1]

Williams J. A Love of Science Fiction Collides With a Classic. New York Times 2017:C2.

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	Operations Research Perspectives
Abbreviation	Oper. Res. Perspect.
ISSN (print)	2214-7160
Scope