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

Suddendorf T (2006) Behavior. Foresight and evolution of the human mind. Science 312:1006–1007

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen F, Krasnow MA (2014) Progenitor outgrowth from the niche in Drosophila trachea is guided by FGF from decaying branches. Science 343:186–189

A journal article with 3 authors

Shih WM, Quispe JD, Joyce GF (2004) A 1.7-kilobase single-stranded DNA that folds into a nanoscale octahedron. Nature 427:618–621

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Li C, Wei R, Jones-Hall YL, et al (2014) Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) pathway genes and interstitial lung disease: an association study. Sci Rep 4:4893

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eicker U (2005) Solar Technologies for Buildings. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Reich S (2014) Genericity in Nonlinear Analysis. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Budisantoso T, Bhati A, Bradshaw A, Tang CM (2016) Hedonic Shopping Motivation: Does It Really Matter? In: Mandal P, Vong J (eds) Development of Tourism and the Hospitality Industry in Southeast Asia. Springer, Singapore, pp 51–64

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

Luntz S (2017) Asteroid Seen Spinning Itself Into Pieces. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/asteroid-seen-spinning-itself-into-pieces/. 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 (1990) Children’s Issues: A Decade of GAO Reports and Recent Activities. 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

Blazer AE (2003) “I Am Otherwise”: The Romance Between Poetry and Theory After the Death of the Subject. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State 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

Kelly D (2014) Man of War. New York Times BR11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Suddendorf 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Suddendorf 2006; Chen and Krasnow 2014).

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

Two authors: (Chen and Krasnow 2014)
Three or more authors: (Li 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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