How to format your references using the Central European Journal of Operations Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Central European Journal of Operations Research. 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

Gershon D (2002) Toxicogenomics gains impetus. Nature 415:4–5

A journal article with 2 authors

Stagon SP, Huang H (2013) Airtight metallic sealing at room temperature under small mechanical pressure. Sci Rep 3:3066

A journal article with 3 authors

Creed M, Pascoli VJ, Lüscher C (2015) Addiction therapy. Refining deep brain stimulation to emulate optogenetic treatment of synaptic pathology. Science 347:659–664

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Han X, Lee R, Chen T, et al (2013) Kinetic evidence of an apparent negative activation enthalpy in an organocatalytic process. Sci Rep 3:2557

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bisswanger H (2017) Enzyme Kinetics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Tabata S, Stougaard J (eds) (2014) The Lotus japonicus Genome. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Jones S, Woglom JF (2016) More on Nomos. In: Woglom JF (ed) On Mutant Pedagogies: Seeking Justice and Drawing Change in Teacher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp 71–77

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 Central European Journal of Operations Research.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Cheap Smartphone Dongle Diagnoses HIV And Syphilis In 15 Minutes. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/cheap-smartphone-dongle-diagnoses-hiv-and-syphilis-15-minutes/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2008) No Child Left Behind Act: Education Actions Could Improve the Targeting of School Improvement Funds to Schools Most in Need of Assistance. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Antoshin S (2010) Modeling inflation expectations in the U.K. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Brantley B (2016) A Floury Farce Leavened With Kitchen-Sink Realism in a Poignant Look at Breadmakers. New York Times C1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon 2002; Stagon and Huang 2013).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Stagon and Huang 2013)
Three or more authors: (Han et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Central European Journal of Operations Research
Abbreviation	Cent. Eur. J. Oper. Res.
ISSN (print)	1435-246X
ISSN (online)	1613-9178
Scope	Management Science and Operations Research