How to format your references using the Discrete Event Dynamic Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Discrete Event Dynamic Systems. 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

Moran MA (2015) The global ocean microbiome. Science 350:aac8455

A journal article with 2 authors

Yu H, Li B (2013) Wavelength-converted wave-guiding in dye-doped polymer nanofibers. Sci Rep 3:1674

A journal article with 3 authors

He DZZ, Jia S, Dallos P (2004) Mechanoelectrical transduction of adult outer hair cells studied in a gerbil hemicochlea. Nature 429:766–770

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Griffith EM, Paytan A, Caldeira K, et al (2008) A dynamic marine calcium cycle during the past 28 million years. Science 322:1671–1674

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Allan D, Bragg N (2012) 802.1aq Shortest Path Bridging Design and Evolution. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Warren PA (ed) (2011) Behavioral Health Disability: Innovations in Prevention and Management. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Stead D, Sielker F, Chilla T (2016) Macro-regional Strategies: Agents of Europeanization and Rescaling? In: Gänzle S, Kern K (eds) A ‘Macro-regional’ Europe in the Making: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Evidence. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp 99–120

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 Event Dynamic Systems.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2015) What Is A White Hole? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/what-white-hole/. 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 (1983) Small Computers in the Federal Government: Management Is Needed To Realize Potential and Prevent Problems. 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

Anderson PM (2012) Persistent Genomic Consequences of Prenatal Nicotine Exposure Measured in Adolescent Rat Brain. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Paulson M (2017) The Musical That Toppled a Confederate Statue. New York Times C4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moran 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Yu and Li 2013; Moran 2015).

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

Two authors: (Yu and Li 2013)
Three or more authors: (Griffith et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Discrete Event Dynamic Systems
Abbreviation	Discrete Event Dyn. Syst.: Theory Appl.
ISSN (print)	0924-6703
ISSN (online)	1573-7594
Scope	Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Modelling and Simulation