How to format your references using the AKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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]

E.F. DeLong, The microbial ocean from genomes to biomes, Nature 459 (2009) 200–206.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Singh, P. Cresswell, Defective cross-presentation of viral antigens in GILT-free mice, Science 328 (2010) 1394–1398.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C.M. O’D Alexander, A.P. Boss, R.W. Carlson, The early evolution of the inner solar system: a meteoritic perspective, Science 293 (2001) 64–68.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P.E. Olsen, D.V. Kent, H.-D. Sues, C. Koeberl, H. Huber, A. Montanari, E.C. Rainforth, S.J. Fowell, M.J. Szajna, B.W. Hartline, Ascent of dinosaurs linked to an iridium anomaly at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, Science 296 (2002) 1305–1307.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E.M. Anson, Alexander’s Heirs, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

L. Choi, Y. Paek, S. Cho, eds., Advances in Computer Systems Architecture: 12th Asia-Pacific Conference, ACSAC 2007, Seoul, Korea, August 23-25, 2007. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Malczewski, C. Rinner, Multiattribute Decision Analysis Methods, in: C. Rinner (Ed.), Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Geographic Information Science, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015: pp. 81–121.

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 AKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, Theives Have Stolen 24,000 Bees From English Country Estate, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/theives-have-stolen-24000-bees-from-english-country-estate-/ (accessed 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Drug and Alcohol Abuse: Billions Spent Annually for Treatment and Prevention Activities, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Kotch, Unduly harsh and unworkably rigid: The death penalty in North Carolina, 1910–1961, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2009.

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]

S. Tavernise, S.F. Kovaleski, J. Turkewitz, ‘I Wish I Could Tell You He Was a Miserable Bastard,’ New York Times (2017) A1.

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	AKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics
Abbreviation	AKCE Int. J. Graphs Comb.
ISSN (print)	0972-8600
Scope	Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics