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

Esposito L (2003) Planetary science. Cassini imaging at Jupiter. Science 299:1529–1530

A journal article with 2 authors

Grumbine RE, Pandit MK (2013) Ecology. Threats from India’s Himalaya dams. Science 339:36–37

A journal article with 3 authors

Oh JS, Susor A, Conti M (2011) Protein tyrosine kinase Wee1B is essential for metaphase II exit in mouse oocytes. Science 332:462–465

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ashfold MNR, Cronin B, Devine AL, et al (2006) The role of pisigma* excited states in the photodissociation of heteroaromatic molecules. Science 312:1637–1640

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tannenbaum LV (2013) Alternative Ecological Risk Assessment. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Nedjah N, Mourelle L de M, Abraham A (eds) (2006) Genetic Systems Programming: Theory and Experiences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Davitashvili N, Bakhshaliev V (2016) Research of Operational Characteristics of Crank-Piston Mechanism by Computer Engineering. In: Bakhshaliev V (ed) Dynamics of Crank-Piston Mechanisms. Springer, Singapore, pp 105–127

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

Fang J (2015) Prehistoric Human-Sized Salamander was a Top Predator. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/prehistoric-human-sized-salamander-was-top-predator/. 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 (2003) Taxpayer Information: Increased Sharing and Verifying of Information Could Improve Education’s Award Decisions. 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

Contreras AG (2009) A reproductive health program for the Latino adolescent community: 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

Schwartz J (2017) When an Executive Acts Like a Spoiled Brat. New York Times BU14

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Esposito 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Esposito 2003; Grumbine and Pandit 2013).

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

Two authors: (Grumbine and Pandit 2013)
Three or more authors: (Ashfold et al. 2006)

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