How to format your references using the Production and Operations Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Production and Operations Management (POMS). 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

Bennett, C. L. 2005. Astrophysical observations: lensing and eclipsing Einstein’s theories. Science 307(5711): 879–884.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tierney, J. E., P. B. deMenocal. 2013. Abrupt shifts in Horn of Africa hydroclimate since the Last Glacial Maximum. Science 342(6160): 843–846.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sobolev, A. V., A. W. Hofmann, I. K. Nikogosian. 2000. Recycled oceanic crust observed in “ghost plagioclase” within the source of Mauna Loa lavas. Nature 404(6781): 986–990.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Feng, J., Y. Huang, Z. Tu, H. Zhang, M. Pan, H. Tang. 2014. Proton conduction of polyAMPS brushes on titanate nanotubes. Sci. Rep. 4: 6225.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Guinebretière, R. 2010. X-ray Diffraction by Polycrystalline Materials. London, UK, ISTE.

An edited book

Meier, L., H. Lange (Eds.). 2009. The New Middle Classes: Globalizing Lifestyles, Consumerism and Environmental Concern. Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Alexeev, V. 2015. Weighted Stable Hyperplane Arrangements. G. Bini, M. Lahoz, E. Macrí, & P. Stellari, eds. Moduli of Weighted Hyperplane Arrangements. Basel, Springer, 75–92.

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 Production and Operations Management.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2013, November 25. Interbreeding Among Early Hominins. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/interbreeding-among-early-hominins/ (accessed date October 30, 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. 1980. Farmers Home Administration’s ADP Development Project--Current Status and Unresolved Problems (No. CED-80-67). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Eldanaf, R. G. 2012. Angry Cherub (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

Crow, K. 2001, June 10. Uncle Junior, a k a Dominic Chianese, Sings His Album, “Hits” (of Course). New York Times, p. 146. 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bennett 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Bennett 2005; Tierney and deMenocal 2013).

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

Two authors: (Tierney and deMenocal 2013)
Three or more authors: (Feng et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Production and Operations Management
ISSN (print)	1059-1478
ISSN (online)	1937-5956
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