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

Grosjean M (2001) Mid-Holocene climate in the south-central Andes: humid or dry? Science 292:2391

A journal article with 2 authors

Adler SL, Bassi A (2009) Physics. Is quantum theory exact? Science 325:275–276

A journal article with 3 authors

Stassun KG, Mathieu RD, Valenti JA (2006) Discovery of two young brown dwarfs in an eclipsing binary system. Nature 440:311–314

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Homma K, Yoshimura M, Saito J, et al (2001) The core of the motor domain determines the direction of myosin movement. Nature 412:831–834

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ruppel W (2014) GAAP for Governments 2014. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey

An edited book

Alonso ME, Arrondo E, Mallavibarrena R, Sols I (eds) (2010) Liaison, Schottky Problem and Invariant Theory: Remembering Federico Gaeta. Birkhäuser, Basel

A chapter in an edited book

Marinč M, Vlahu R (2012) General Issues on the Structure of Banking Industry. In: Vlahu R (ed) The Economics of Bank Bankruptcy Law. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 85–96

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 D (2016) Why Do You Feel Like You’re Falling When You Go To Sleep? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-do-you-feel-like-youre-falling-when-you-go-to-sleep/. 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 (2017) Vehicle Data Privacy: Industry and Federal Efforts Under Way but NHTSA Needs to Define Its Role. 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

Mendoza-Williams J (2015) Road to success: The experiences of academically successful graduation-bound African American males. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kishkovsky S (2000) In Siberia, the World Moves In With Lenin’s Legacy. New York Times E2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grosjean 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Grosjean 2001; Adler and Bassi 2009).

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

Two authors: (Adler and Bassi 2009)
Three or more authors: (Homma et al. 2001)

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

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