How to format your references using the Discrete Optimization citation style

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

P.R. Renne, Geology. Flood basalts--bigger and badder, Science 296 (2002) 1812–1813.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. Rosenfeld, W.L. Woodley, Deep convective clouds with sustained supercooled liquid water down to -37.5 degrees C, Nature 405 (2000) 440–442.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T.W. Schoener, D.A. Spiller, J.B. Losos, Natural restoration of the species-area relation for a lizard after a hurricane, Science 294 (2001) 1525–1528.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Zhang, S. Jia, H. Huang, J. Qiu, C. Zhou, A novel algorithm for the precise calculation of the maximal information coefficient, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6662.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G.R. Henderson, Six Sigma Quality Improvement with Minitab, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

B. Beaty, The Greatest Comic Book of All Time: Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books, Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

N.H. van Dijk, Structure Evolution in Materials Studied by Time-Dependent Neutron Scattering, in: G. Eckold, H. Schober, S.E. Nagler (Eds.), Studying Kinetics with Neutrons: Prospects for Time-Resolved Neutron Scattering, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 101–122.

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 Optimization.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, Why Have Rivers In France Turned Vivid Green This Week?, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-have-rivers-france-turned-vivid-green-week/ (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, FCC Needs To Monitor a Changing International Telecommunications Market, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Heyer, Advocacy Services for College Students With Disabilities: A Grant Proposal, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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. Billard, Still Wild For Animal Prints, New York Times (2010) E6.

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 Optimization
Abbreviation	Discrete Optim.
ISSN (print)	1572-5286
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Applied Mathematics Theoretical Computer Science