How to format your references using the Discrete Applied Mathematics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Discrete Applied Mathematics. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

X. Zhang, The epigenetic landscape of plants, Science 320 (2008) 489–492.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B. Huard, L. Karlsson, KIR expression on self-reactive CD8+ T cells is controlled by T-cell receptor engagement, Nature 403 (2000) 325–328.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Lavine, P. Szuromi, R. Coontz, Materials for grid energy. Electricity now and when. Introduction, Science 334 (2011) 921.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

I. Blilou, J. Xu, M. Wildwater, V. Willemsen, I. Paponov, J. Friml, R. Heidstra, M. Aida, K. Palme, B. Scheres, The PIN auxin efflux facilitator network controls growth and patterning in Arabidopsis roots, Nature 433 (2005) 39–44.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Center for Chemical Process Safety, Guidelines for Chemical Process Quantitative Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

V.C.M. Leung, M. Chen, J. Wan, Y. Zhang, eds., Testbeds and Research Infrastructure: Development of Networks and Communities: 9th International ICST Conference, TridentCom 2014, Guangzhou, China, May 5-7, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. van de Heetkamp, R. Tusveld, The Content of the FTA Text and Its Range, in: R. Tusveld (Ed.), Origin Management: Rules of Origin in Free Trade Agreements, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 49–69.

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 Discrete Applied Mathematics.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Only Three EU Countries On Track To Meet Paris Climate Agreement Targets, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/only-three-eu-countries-on-track-to-meet-paris-climate-agreement-targets/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Within-School Discrimination: Inadequate Title VI Enforcement by the Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Woo, Cross-Cultural Encounter and the Novel: Nation, Identity, and Genre in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2008.

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

[1]

K. Kelly, Edge or Liability?, New York Times (2017) B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Discrete Applied Mathematics
Abbreviation	Discrete Appl. Math.
ISSN (print)	0166-218X
Scope	Applied Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics