How to format your references using the Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science citation style

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

M.A. Friedman, Public health. Strengthening the FDA, Science 298 (2002) 2332.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Panian, D. Wiltschko, Ramp initiation in a thrust wedge, Nature 427 (2004) 624–627.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.A. Hanna, R.L. Campbell, P.L. Davies, Calcium-bound structure of calpain and its mechanism of inhibition by calpastatin, Nature 456 (2008) 409–412.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P.L. Hansen, J.B. Wagner, S. Helveg, J.R. Rostrup-Nielsen, B.S. Clausen, H. Topsøe, Atom-resolved imaging of dynamic shape changes in supported copper nanocrystals, Science 295 (2002) 2053–2055.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

V. Cicek, Cathodic Protection, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

B.D. Bartolo, O. Forte, eds., Frontiers of Optical Spectroscopy: Investigating Extreme Physical Conditions with Advanced Optical Techniques, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C.R. Mehta, Sample Size Reestimation for Confirmatory Clinical Trials, in: D. Harrington (Ed.), Designs for Clinical Trials: Perspectives on Current Issues, Springer, New York, NY, 2012: pp. 81–108.

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 Theoretical Computer Science.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Regenerative Medicine Has Huge Potential But It Does Not Come Cheap, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/regenerative-medicine-has-huge-potential-it-does-not-come-cheap/ (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, Cassini Mission: Estimated Launch Costs for NASA’s Mission to Saturn, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.M. Lee, Principals’ Understanding of Teacher Evaluations Connected to the Colorado Student Assessment Program, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2014.

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]

G. Vecsey, One Bowl That Counts And 34 Others, New York Times (2010) B9.

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 Theoretical Computer Science
Abbreviation	Electron. Notes Theor. Comput. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1571-0661
Scope	General Computer Science Theoretical Computer Science