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

Mesirov JP (2010) Computer science. Accessible reproducible research. Science 327:415–416

A journal article with 2 authors

Park J, Yook S-H (2014) Bayesian inference of natural rankings in incomplete competition networks. Sci Rep 4:6212

A journal article with 3 authors

Burslem DF, Garwood NC, Thomas SC (2001) Ecology. Tropical forest diversity--the plot thickens. Science 291:606–607

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Velliste M, Perel S, Spalding MC, et al (2008) Cortical control of a prosthetic arm for self-feeding. Nature 453:1098–1101

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Equipment Testing Procedures Committee (2007) Positive Displacement Pumps. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Yamazaki H (ed) (2014) Fifty Years of Cytochrome P450 Research. Springer Japan, Tokyo

A chapter in an edited book

Mandal B, Chakrabarti A (2015) Equivalent Orthotropic Plate Model for Fibre Reinforced Plastic Sandwich Bridge Deck Panels with Various Core Configurations. In: Matsagar V (ed) Advances in Structural Engineering: Mechanics, Volume One. Springer India, New Delhi, pp 43–53

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

Luntz S (2015) Where Did All the Ammonites Go? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/where-did-all-ammonites-go/. 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 (2013) National Airspace System: Airport-Centric Development. 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

Knoth KC (2017) Biological Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences: An Examination of an Introductory Level Implementation. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Hollander S (2000) Capriati Moves On, Calmly. New York Times D4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mesirov 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Mesirov 2010; Park and Yook 2014).

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

Two authors: (Park and Yook 2014)
Three or more authors: (Velliste et al. 2008)

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