How to format your references using the Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory. 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

Davidson LA (2008) Developmental biology. Apoptosis turbocharges epithelial morphogenesis. Science 321:1641–1642

A journal article with 2 authors

Lewis JA, Ahn BY (2015) Device fabrication: Three-dimensional printed electronics. Nature 518:42–43

A journal article with 3 authors

Feng Y, Zhang S, Huang X (2014) A robust TALENs system for highly efficient mammalian genome editing. Sci Rep 4:3632

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Malmström J, Beck M, Schmidt A, et al (2009) Proteome-wide cellular protein concentrations of the human pathogen Leptospira interrogans. Nature 460:762–765

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kampen TU (2010) Low Molecular Weight Organic Semiconductors. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Erlebach T, Nikoletseas S, Orponen P (eds) (2012) Algorithms for Sensor Systems: 7th International Symposium on Algorithms for Sensor Systems, Wireless Ad Hoc Networks and Autonomous Mobile Entities, ALGOSENSORS 2011, Saarbrücken, Germany, September 8-9, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Sloan K (2016) The Lives of Mrs Delany’s Paper Plants. In: Craciun A, Schaffer S (eds) The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp 39–41

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 Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Condition Called Tetrachromacy Allows This Artist To See 100 Million Colors. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/tetrachromacy-allows-artist-see-100-million-colors/. 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 (1999) Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Noteworthy Improvements in Readiness But Vulnerabilities Remain. 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

Miles CS (2015) Elicitation of a Program’s Behaviors. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Feeney K (2008) See Food Grow. Eat It There. New York Times NJ9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Davidson 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Davidson 2008; Lewis and Ahn 2015).

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

Two authors: (Lewis and Ahn 2015)
Three or more authors: (Malmström et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
Abbreviation	Comput. Math. Organ. Theory
ISSN (print)	1381-298X
ISSN (online)	1572-9346
Scope	General Computer Science General Decision Sciences Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics Modelling and Simulation