How to format your references using the EURO Journal on Computational Optimization citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for EURO Journal on Computational 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Perez DR (2012) Public health and biosecurity. H5N1 debates: hung up on the wrong questions. Science 335:799–801

A journal article with 2 authors

Moore SL, Wilson K (2002) Parasites as a viability cost of sexual selection in natural populations of mammals. Science 297:2015–2018

A journal article with 3 authors

Eggenschwiler JT, Espinoza E, Anderson KV (2001) Rab23 is an essential negative regulator of the mouse Sonic hedgehog signalling pathway. Nature 412:194–198

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Asahara A, Chen S, Ito T, et al (2014) Direct generation of 2-ps blue pulses from gain-switched InGaN VCSEL assessed by up-conversion technique. Sci Rep 4:6401

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Allen DS (2012) Why Plato Wrote. Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford, UK

An edited book

Sadovnichiy VA, Zgurovsky MZ (eds) (2016) Advances in Dynamical Systems and Control. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Pang C, Gu L, Hansen D, Maeder A (2009) Privacy-Preserving Fuzzy Matching Using a Public Reference Table. In: McClean S, Millard P, El-Darzi E, Nugent C (eds) Intelligent Patient Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 71–89

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 EURO Journal on Computational Optimization.

Blog post

Andrews R (2017) Study Linking “Everyday Chemicals” To Cancer Has Been Completely Misrepresented. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/study-everyday-chemicals-cancer-completely-misrepresented/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1989) Aviation Weather: FAA Needs to Resolve Questions Involving the Use of New Radars. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Robert LA (2015) The impact of community-based mentoring on African American boys using an attribution-retraining curriculum. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Hodara S (2017) You Can Just Put That Cookie Cutter Away. New York Times RE8

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Perez 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Moore and Wilson 2002; Perez 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Moore and Wilson 2002)
Three or more authors: (Asahara et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	EURO Journal on Computational Optimization
ISSN (print)	2192-4406
ISSN (online)	2192-4414
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