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]

J.M. Eiler, Geology. On the origins of granites, Science. 315 (2007) 951–952.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.G. Fischer, C.A. Suttle, A virophage at the origin of large DNA transposons, Science. 332 (2011) 231–234.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.C. Weaver, T.E. Vaughan, R.D. Astumian, Biological sensing of small field differences by magnetically sensitive chemical reactions, Nature. 405 (2000) 707–709.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W.-Q. Wu, H.-S. Rao, Y.-F. Xu, Y.-F. Wang, C.-Y. Su, D.-B. Kuang, Hierarchical oriented anatase TiO2 nanostructure arrays on flexible substrate for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1892.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D.A. Chin, Water-Quality Engineering in Natural Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

D. Alberts, M. Lluria-Prevatt, S. Kha, K. Weihs, eds., Supportive Cancer Care, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E.J. Poirier, D.R. Poirier, Energy Balance Applications in Fluid Flow, in: D.R. Poirier (Ed.), Solutions Manual To Accompany Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 63–91.

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]

J. Davis, 7,000-Year-Old Skeleton Shows Evidence Of Leukemia, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/7000-year-old-skeleton-shows-evidence-leukemia/ (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, Information Technology: Departmental Leadership Crucial to Success of Investment Reforms at Interior, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Saxena, Learner analysis framework for globalized e-learning, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2010.

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]

M.W. Walsh, Teamsters Pension Fund Warns 400,000 of Cuts, New York Times. (2015) B1.

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

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