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

Friedman M (2009) Journal club. A palaeontologist ponders how biodiversity is spread across the vertebrate tree of life. Nature 462:255

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang L, Doudna JA (2002) Structural insights into group II intron catalysis and branch-site selection. Science 295:2084–2088

A journal article with 3 authors

Bonsall MB, Jansen VAA, Hassell MP (2004) Life history trade-offs assemble ecological guilds. Science 306:111–114

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Buesseler KO, Andrews JE, Pike SM, Charette MA (2004) The effects of iron fertilization on carbon sequestration in the Southern Ocean. Science 304:414–417

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yamarone R (2012) The Trader’s Guide to Key Economic Indicators. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Turcan RV, Reilly JE, Bugaian L (eds) (2016) (Re)Discovering University Autonomy: The Global Market Paradox of Stakeholder and Educational Values in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Bottiglia R (2016) Competitive Frontiers in P2P Lending Crowdfunding. In: Bottiglia R, Pichler F (eds) Crowdfunding for SMEs: A European Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp 61–92

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

Andrew E (2014) Why haven’t we encountered aliens yet? The answer could be climate change. In: IFLScience. 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 (2005) Information Technology: Responses to Subcommittee Post-Hearing Questions Regarding the FBI’s Management Practices and Acquisition of a New Investigative Case Management System. 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

Harper NR (2017) The Relationship between Worry Symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder and True Memory, False Memory, and Metamemory. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Brantley B (2017) That Close-Up, in Fine Focus. New York Times C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Friedman 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Zhang and Doudna 2002; Friedman 2009).

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

Two authors: (Zhang and Doudna 2002)
Three or more authors: (Buesseler et al. 2004)

About the journal

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