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

Ohlemüller R (2011) Climate. Running out of climate space. Science 334:613–614

A journal article with 2 authors

Stechmann A, Cavalier-Smith T (2002) Rooting the eukaryote tree by using a derived gene fusion. Science 297:89–91

A journal article with 3 authors

Knigge C, Coe MJ, Podsiadlowski P (2011) Two populations of X-ray pulsars produced by two types of supernova. Nature 479:372–375

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Fuss B, Becker T, Zinke I, Hoch M (2006) The cytohesin Steppke is essential for insulin signalling in Drosophila. Nature 444:945–948

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rittereiser CM, Kochard LE (2010) Top Hedge Fund Investors. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Baxley TP (2014) (In)visible Presence: Feminist Counter-Narratives of Young Adult Literature by Women of Color. SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

Sakio H, Kubo M, Shimano K, Ohno K (2008) Coexistence mechanisms of three riparian species in the upper basin with respect to their life histories, ecophysiology, and disturbance regimes. In: Sakio H, Tamura T (eds) Ecology of Riparian Forests in Japan: Disturbance, Life History, and Regeneration. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 75–90

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) There’s Toxic Pollutants In The World’s Deepest Ocean Trenches. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/theres-toxic-pollutants-in-the-worlds-deepest-ocean-trenches/. 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 (2014) Information Technology: Reform Initiatives Can Help Improve Efficiency and Effectiveness. 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

Lowry LA (2017) Creative Aging in Senior Centers: A Grounded Theory Study. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Judah B (2016) London rolls out the kleptocrats’ carpet. New York Times A9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ohlemüller 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Stechmann and Cavalier-Smith 2002; Ohlemüller 2011).

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

Two authors: (Stechmann and Cavalier-Smith 2002)
Three or more authors: (Fuss et al. 2006)

About the journal

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