How to format your references using the Discrete Mathematics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Discrete 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]

J. Lane, Science innovation. Assessing the impact of science funding, Science 324 (2009) 1273–1275.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L.J. Picker, J.D. Lifson, HIV: Seeking ultimate victory, Nature 517 (2015) 281–282.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.-T. Chuang, Y.-H. Kuo, M.-J. Su, Antifibrotic effects of KS370G, a caffeamide derivative, in renal ischemia-reperfusion injured mice and renal tubular epithelial cells, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5814.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. Del’Haye, A. Schliesser, O. Arcizet, T. Wilken, R. Holzwarth, T.J. Kippenberg, Optical frequency comb generation from a monolithic microresonator, Nature 450 (2007) 1214–1217.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T.H. Cahill, Low Impact Development and Sustainable Stormwater Management, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

K. Schwerdtner Máñez, B. Poulsen, eds., Perspectives on Oceans Past, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Scaglione, Y.-W. Peter Hong, B.S. Mergen, Cooperative Strategies in Dense Sensor Networks, in: G. Ferrari (Ed.), Sensor Networks: Where Theory Meets Practice, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 61–74.

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 Mathematics.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Gut Microbes Control Parkinson’s Disease In Mice, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gut-microbes-control-parkinsons-disease-in-mice/ (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, Automatic Data Processing Policies, Procedures, and Practices at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, California, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Liggins, Self-concept education as a motivator of life effectiveness, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2012.

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]

M. Pilon, Solitary Refinement: A Runner’s Quest, New York Times (2012) D1.

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 Mathematics
Abbreviation	Discrete Math.
ISSN (print)	0012-365X
Scope	Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics Theoretical Computer Science