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

Tesche C (2000) QUANTUM MECHANICS: Enhanced: Schrodinger’s Cat Is Out of the Hat. Science 290:720–721

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang K, Kinoshita M (2013) Geophysics. Dangers of being thin and weak. Science 342:1178–1180

A journal article with 3 authors

Callou C, Samzun A, Zivie A (2004) Archaeology: a lion found in the Egyptian tomb of Maïa. Nature 427:211–212

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Park JT, Chi WS, Kim SJ, et al (2014) Mesoporous TiO₂ Bragg stack templated by graft copolymer for dye-sensitized solar cells. Sci Rep 4:5505

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bakus GJ (2007) Quantitative Analysis of Marine Biological Communities. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Kyrala GA (ed) (2005) High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Allen PM (2012) Cities: The Visible Expression of Co-evolving Complexity. In: Portugali J, Meyer H, Stolk E, Tan E (eds) Complexity Theories of Cities Have Come of Age: An Overview with Implications to Urban Planning and Design. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 67–89

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) Regenerative Medicine Has Huge Potential But It Does Not Come Cheap. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/regenerative-medicine-has-huge-potential-it-does-not-come-cheap/. 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 (1998) U.S. Postal Service: Postal and Telecommunications Sector Representation in International Organizations. 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

Kao CH (2012) Community mental health care for Chinese Americans: A grant proposal. 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

Kelly SR (2014) How the Carolinas Fixed Their Blurred Lines. New York Times SR6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tesche 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Tesche 2000; Wang and Kinoshita 2013).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Kinoshita 2013)
Three or more authors: (Park et al. 2014)

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