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]

P. Forbes, Poetry and science: greatness in little, Nature 434 (2005) 320–323.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Minkov, V. Savona, Automated optimization of photonic crystal slab cavities, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5124.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Cohen, Z. Zhou, M.E. Greenberg, Medicine. Activating a repressor, Science 320 (2008) 1172–1173.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B. Dubertret, P. Skourides, D.J. Norris, V. Noireaux, A.H. Brivanlou, A. Libchaber, In vivo imaging of quantum dots encapsulated in phospholipid micelles, Science 298 (2002) 1759–1762.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Beneke, M. Peters, D. Glasser, D. Hildebrandt, Understanding Distillation Using Column Profile Maps, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

S. Janjuha-Jivraj, Championing Women Leaders: Beyond Sponsorship, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Basnayake, E.M. Bollt, A Multi-time Step Method to Compute Optical Flow with Scientific Priors for Observations of a Fluidic System, in: W. Bahsoun, C. Bose, G. Froyland (Eds.), Ergodic Theory, Open Dynamics, and Coherent Structures, Springer, New York, NY, 2014: pp. 59–79.

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]

S. Luntz, Candidate for Closest Exoplanet Reported, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/space/candidate-closest-exoplanet-reported/ (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, Transportation Security Information Sharing: Results of GAO’s Survey of Stakeholder Satisfaction with TSA Products and Mechanisms (GAO-12-67SP, November 2011), an E-supplement to GAO-12-44, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.Y. Alzaaq, Arabic adaptation of loanwords: An empirical examination of pharyngealization and vowel epenthesis, 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]

S.K. (nyt), World Briefing | Europe: Ukraine: Former Aide Cites Corruption, New York Times (2005) A11.

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