How to format your references using the Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics citation style

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

E. Gibney, How to tame the flood of literature, Nature 513 (2014) 129–130.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.M. Desai, A.M. Walczak, Microbiology. Flexible gene pools, Science 348 (2015) 977–978.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Budday, C. Raybaud, E. Kuhl, A mechanical model predicts morphological abnormalities in the developing human brain, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5644.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Sugimoto, P. Pou, O. Custance, P. Jelinek, M. Abe, R. Perez, S. Morita, Complex patterning by vertical interchange atom manipulation using atomic force microscopy, Science 322 (2008) 413–417.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W. Allsopp, Advanced Penetration Testing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

N. Voros, A. Mukherjee, N. Sklavos, K. Masselos, M. Huebner, eds., VLSI 2010 Annual Symposium: Selected papers, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R.W. Mays, Clinical Development of MultiStem® for Treatment of Injuries and Diseases of the Central Nervous System, in: D.C. Hess (Ed.), Cell Therapy for Brain Injury, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 47–63.

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 Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, Physicists Use Einstein’s ‘Spooky’ Entanglement To Invent Super-Sensitive Gravitational Wave Detector, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/space/physicists-use-einsteins-spooky-entanglement-to-invent-supersensitive-gravitational-wave-detector/ (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, Drug Education: School-Based Programs Seen as Useful but Impact Unknown, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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S.M. Hamilton, An Investigation of the Mass Balance of Oil and Gas Produced Versus Estimated Reserves Remaining within the A.W.P. Field, McMullen County, Texas, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2015.

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]

W. Neuman, S. Romero, Allies Resist U.S. Strategy in Drug Fight, New York Times (2015) A1.

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	Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics
Abbreviation	Electron. Notes Discrete Math.
ISSN (print)	1571-0653
Scope	Applied Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics