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

Wunsch C (2000) Moon, tides and climate. Nature 405:743–744

A journal article with 2 authors

Horvitz E, Mulligan D (2015) Policy forum. Data, privacy, and the greater good. Science 349:253–255

A journal article with 3 authors

Mourre V, Villa P, Henshilwood CS (2010) Early use of pressure flaking on lithic artifacts at Blombos Cave, South Africa. Science 330:659–662

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bannister AJ, Zegerman P, Partridge JF, et al (2001) Selective recognition of methylated lysine 9 on histone H3 by the HP1 chromo domain. Nature 410:120–124

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Uriev NB (2016) Technology of Dispersed Systems and Materials. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Patra AK (ed) (2012) Dietary Phytochemicals and Microbes. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Merkel M, Pannert W, Winkler R (2009) On the Vibroacoustic Behaviour of HSS. In: Öechsner A, Augustin C (eds) Multifunctional Metallic Hollow Sphere Structures: Manufacturing, Properties and Application. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 71–88

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

Andrew E (2014) Air Umbrella Creates “Force Field” That Keeps You Dry. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/air-umbrella-may-revolutionize-dealing-rainy-days/. 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 (1978) Status of Office of Education’s National Direct Student Loan Funds at Selected Postsecondary Education Institutions. 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

Miles CS (2015) Elicitation of a Program’s Behaviors. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Belson K, Pilon M (2012) After Tying in 100, Advancing in 200. New York Times B10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wunsch 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Wunsch 2000; Horvitz and Mulligan 2015).

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

Two authors: (Horvitz and Mulligan 2015)
Three or more authors: (Bannister et al. 2001)

About the journal

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