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

Theissen G (2002) Secret life of genes. Nature 415:741

A journal article with 2 authors

Pfisterer AB, Schmid B (2002) Diversity-dependent production can decrease the stability of ecosystem functioning. Nature 416:84–86

A journal article with 3 authors

Dawkins MS, Donnelly CA, Jones TA (2004) Chicken welfare is influenced more by housing conditions than by stocking density. Nature 427:342–344

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Drinnenberg IA, Weinberg DE, Xie KT, et al (2009) RNAi in budding yeast. Science 326:544–550

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Levin R (2011) Implementing the Wealth Management Index. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Briand F-P (2005) Microsoft Content Management Server Field Guide. A-Press, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Kuusisto F, Costa VS, Nassif H, et al (2014) Support Vector Machines for Differential Prediction. In: Calders T, Esposito F, Hüllermeier E, Meo R (eds) Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2014, Nancy, France, September 15-19, 2014. Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 50–65

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

Hamilton K (2017) A Possible Alternative To Morphine – Inspired By Spit. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/a-possible-alternative-to-morphine-inspired-by-spit/. 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 (1991) Tax Systems Modernization: Private Sector Modernization Efforts IRS May Want to Examine. 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

Slaughter RA (2017) Tradition and Progress: California Fire Technology Directors Beliefs and Values. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Villarosa L (2007) The Wheezing That Could Signal Childhood Asthma. New York Times H2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Theissen 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Theissen 2002; Pfisterer and Schmid 2002).

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

Two authors: (Pfisterer and Schmid 2002)
Three or more authors: (Drinnenberg et al. 2009)

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