How to format your references using the EURO Journal on Decision Processes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for EURO Journal on Decision Processes. 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

Quirrenbach A (2007) Astronomy. Seeing the surfaces of stars. Science 317:325–326

A journal article with 2 authors

Maheswaran S, Haber DA (2015) Cell fate: Transition loses its invasive edge. Nature 527:452–453

A journal article with 3 authors

Whitfield CW, Cziko A-M, Robinson GE (2003) Gene expression profiles in the brain predict behavior in individual honey bees. Science 302:296–299

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhang S, Xie C, Wang Q, Liu Z (2014) Interactions of CaMKII with dopamine D2 receptors: roles in levodopa-induced dyskinesia in 6-hydroxydopamine lesioned Parkinson’s rats. Sci Rep 4:6811

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Madden BJ (2010) Wealth Creation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ogata K, Lawford M, Liu S (eds) (2016) Formal Methods and Software Engineering: 18th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2016, Tokyo, Japan, November 14-18, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Manevitch LI, Gendelman OV (2011) Continuous Systems. In: Gendelman OV (ed) Tractable Models of Solid Mechanics: Formulation, Analysis and Interpretation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 237–293

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 Decision Processes.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) WHO Wants To Extend Their Definition Of Infertility To Include Single People. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/who-wants-to-extend-their-definition-of-infertility-to-include-single-people/. 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 (1977) Need for a Government-Wide Budget Classification Structure for Federal Research and Development Information, Appendix IV. 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

Jenkins DS (2010) Comprehensive support for children of incarcerated parents and their families. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Ivory D, Ruiz RR (2014) G.M. Resists Expanding Victims’ Fund. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Quirrenbach 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Quirrenbach 2007; Maheswaran and Haber 2015).

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

Two authors: (Maheswaran and Haber 2015)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	EURO Journal on Decision Processes
ISSN (print)	2193-9438
ISSN (online)	2193-9446
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