Style request: INFORMS journals

acimovic_sc

I'm looking to use a format that is used by "Operations Research" and "Manufacturing & Service Operations Management" (MSOM). In these citing styles, only the year is used in line, and the author's name is mentioned in the text.

E.G.
As mentioned by Smith (1988), and improved by Jones (1990) and Charles (1990a, 1990b), etc.....

As far as the bibliography itself goes, the Harvard one would be fine.

I did not see any styles in the repository that had only the date. I tried piddling myself with the Harvard style to remove the author, but then it thought that all references in the same year were part of the a, b, c (i.e., it would have wrote "improved by Jones (1990a) and Charles (1990b, 1990c), etc....." which I'm not looking for).

Thank you.

adamsmith

use the "supress author" function in the word plugin for this:
http://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage#quick_format_citation_dialog

Btw. you're mistaken - these journals only ever use the date, see e.g. right in the 2nd paragraph of

Epstein, R., Goic, M., Weintraub, A., Catalán, J., Santibáñez, P., Urrutia, R., Cancino, R., Gaete, S., Aguayo, A., and Caro, F., 2012. Optimizing Long-Term Production Plans in Underground and Open-Pit Copper Mines. Operations Research, 60 (1), 4–17.

"Given the advances in software and hardware, the use
of operations research (OR)—in particular, mixed-integer
programming (MIP)—has gained strength (Alford et al.
2007, Cacceta 2007)."

A quick glance at the article shows that if anything this form of citation is more common.

aurimas

Use Harvard style and select suppress author when inserting citation. http://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage#quick_format_citation_dialog

Edit: should have figured Adam would beat me to it. Typing on phone be slow.

acimovic_sc

Thank you! I thought for sure it would be a style unto itself, and not a checkbox in the editor. Thanks so much. Hours saved.....

adamsmith, in the article you reference, they seem to use the two styles throughout the paper (author, date) and (date) [see for instance lit review on page 2 right column]

"Among the papers based on optimization methods, Gershon (1983) presents a MIP formulation, Dagdelen and Johnson (1986) suggest a Lagrangian relaxation, Caccetta and Hill (2003) use branch and cut, and Tolwinski and Underwood (1996) propose a dynamic programming approach."


Is this what you're referring to, or the disambiguation with the year? I think you're saying that (author, date) is more common, right?

Best,
Jason

adamsmith

I'm saying (author, date) is more common, though that wasn't based on a close examination - but it doesn't really matter: using suppress author in the plugin you can do both with the same style.

And yes, this also has the advantage that it will only but letters after the year when you actually have a citation by the same author in the same year.

aurimas

I think technically that's the same style. When you want to mention the author as part of the sentence and cite him/her at the same time you just include the year in the citation since repeating the author in the parentheses would be redundant.

acimovic_sc

Thanks.