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]

B. Schmidt, Astronomy. The link between supernovae and gamma ray bursts, Science 308 (2005) 1265–1266.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P.P. Mitra, J.B. Stark, Nonlinear limits to the information capacity of optical fibre communications, Nature 411 (2001) 1027–1030.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

I.M. Hastings, P.G. Bray, S.A. Ward, Parasitology. A requiem for chloroquine, Science 298 (2002) 74–75.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K. Pfeilsticker, A. Lotter, C. Peters, H. Bosch, Atmospheric detection of water dimers via near-infrared absorption, Science 300 (2003) 2078–2080.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

CCPS, Safe Design and Operation of Process Vents and Emission Control Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

A. Makhlouf, E. Paal, S.D. Silvestrov, A. Stolin, eds., Algebra, Geometry and Mathematical Physics: AGMP, Mulhouse, France, October 2011, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S.E. Haupt, Introduction to Genetic Algorithms, in: S.E. Haupt, A. Pasini, C. Marzban (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence Methods in the Environmental Sciences, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2009: pp. 103–125.

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]

E. Andrew, Incredible Photographs Show The “Dark Side” Of The Moon From More Than A Million Miles Away, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/dark-side-moon-captured-nasas-epic-camera/ (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, Next Generation Air Transportation System: Status of the Transition to the Future Air Traffic Control System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.R. Prather, Pink, blues, blacks, and the Union Jack: Mod’s reinterpretation of Britishness, 1962-1964, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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. Crow, Spellers Struggle on Screen. Hipsters Howl and Mimic, New York Times (2003) 146.

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