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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

L.R. Sita, Chemistry. Tin takes ethylene on--and off, Science 325 (2009) 1631–1632.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E.H. Feinberg, C.P. Hunter, Transport of dsRNA into cells by the transmembrane protein SID-1, Science 301 (2003) 1545–1547.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

F. Takahashi, M. Matsushima, Y. Honkura, Simulations of a quasi-Taylor state geomagnetic field including polarity reversals on the Earth Simulator, Science 309 (2005) 459–461.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

F. Molnár Jr, N. Derzsy, É. Czabarka, L. Székely, B.K. Szymanski, G. Korniss, Dominating scale-free networks using generalized probabilistic methods, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6308.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W.C. Chin, Resistivity Modeling, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

P. Kunche, Metaheuristic Applications to Speech Enhancement, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.M. Bannister, E.R. Herbert, C.B. Craft, Spatial Variability in Sedimentation, Carbon Sequestration, and Nutrient Accumulation in an Alluvial Floodplain Forest, in: J. Vymazal (Ed.), The Role of Natural and Constructed Wetlands in Nutrient Cycling and Retention on the Landscape, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 41–55.

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, Archaeologists Dig Up Britain’s Oldest Handwritten Document In Central London, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/archaeologists-dig-britains-oldest-handwritten-document-central-london/ (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, Railroad Regulation: Changes in Freight Railroad Rates from 1997 through 2000, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R.E. Myers, Moderating the effectiveness of messages to promote physical activity in type 2 diabetes, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 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]

E.S. Rueb, Before Fire Under Tracks in East Harlem, a Business Took Root, New York Times (2016) A21.

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