How to format your references using the Algorithmica citation style

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

Fisk, Z.: Physics. A whiff of chemistry in heavy electron physics. Science. 318, 1559–1560 (2007)

A journal article with 2 authors

Waldschmidt, T.J., Noelle, R.J.: Immunology. Long live the mature B cell--a baffling mystery resolved. Science. 293, 2012–2013 (2001)

A journal article with 3 authors

Vasudevan, S., Tong, Y., Steitz, J.A.: Switching from repression to activation: microRNAs can up-regulate translation. Science. 318, 1931–1934 (2007)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bell, R., Duke, A.A., Gilmore, P.E., Page, D., Bègue, L.: Anxiolytic-like effects observed in rats exposed to the elevated zero-maze following treatment with 5-HT2/5-HT3/5-HT4 ligands. Sci. Rep. 4, 3881 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McGuiggan, P.: GPRS in Practice. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2005)

An edited book

da Poian, A.T.: Integrative Human Biochemistry: A Textbook for Medical Biochemistry. Springer, New York, NY (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Aptekar, L., Stoecklin, D.: Programs: Typical and Exemplary. In: Stoecklin, D. (ed.) Street Children and Homeless Youth: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. pp. 163–216. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2014)

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 Algorithmica.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Turns Out The Answer To Virtual Reality Sickness Is Right In Front Of Your Face, https://www.iflscience.com/technology/turns-out-answer-virtual-reality-sickness-right-front-your-face/

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: Student Financial Aid Systems: Absence of Guiding Architecture Reduces Efficiency, Ease of Use. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1997)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Casco, D.: Consonance: An inter play of music and design to evoke curiosity and awareness of our musical identity, (2014)

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

Sisario, B.: WBGO Is Giving Jazz a Higher Profile Online, (2017)

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	Algorithmica
Abbreviation	Algorithmica
ISSN (print)	0178-4617
ISSN (online)	1432-0541
Scope	General Computer Science Computer Science Applications Applied Mathematics