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

Stanley, M.: Perspective: Vaccinate boys too. Nature. 488, S10 (2012)

A journal article with 2 authors

Mederos, A., Lamberg-Karlovsky, C.C.: Converting currencies in the Old World. Nature. 411, 437 (2001)

A journal article with 3 authors

Miller, P.M., Gavrilets, S., Rice, W.R.: Sexual conflict via maternal-effect genes in ZW species. Science. 312, 73 (2006)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Newman, J.R.S., Ghaemmaghami, S., Ihmels, J., Breslow, D.K., Noble, M., DeRisi, J.L., Weissman, J.S.: Single-cell proteomic analysis of S. cerevisiae reveals the architecture of biological noise. Nature. 441, 840–846 (2006)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morvillo, N.: Science and Religion. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK (2010)

An edited book

Lodwick, W.A., Kacprzyk, J. eds: Fuzzy Optimization: Recent Advances and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2010)

A chapter in an edited book

LaBoskey, V.K.: “Name It and Claim It”: The Methodology of Self-Study as Social Justice Teacher Education. In: Fitzgerald, L., Heston, M., and Tidwell, D. (eds.) Research Methods for the Self-study of Practice. pp. 73–82. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2009)

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

Hamilton, K.: Swimming The Atlantic Is An Extreme Act Of Human Endurance – Here’s What The Body Will Go Through, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/swimming-the-atlantic-is-an-extreme-act-of-human-endurance-heres-what-the-body-will-go-through/

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: Measuring Performance: The Advanced Technology Program and Private-Sector Funding. 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

Neal, D.J.: Prehospital Patient Triage in Mass Casualty Incidents: An engineering management analysis and prototype strategy recommendation, (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

Koblin, J.: James Corden Chosen to Host Grammys, (2016)

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

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