How to format your references using the European Journal of Combinatorics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Combinatorics. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

E. Mayr, Happy birthday: 80 years of watching the evolutionary scenery, Science 305 (2004) 46–47.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

I.M. Côté, J.D. Reynolds, Conservation biology. Predictive ecology to the rescue?, Science 298 (2002) 1181–1182.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. Minai, D. Yeheskely-Hayon, D. Yelin, High levels of reactive oxygen species in gold nanoparticle-targeted cancer cells following femtosecond pulse irradiation, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2146.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. Freeman, C.D. Evans, D.T. Monteith, B. Reynolds, N. Fenner, Export of organic carbon from peat soils, Nature 412 (2001) 785.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K. Bhaskar, T.K. Varadan Retd., Plates, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

G. Biesta, M. De Bie, D. Wildemeersch, eds., Civic Learning, Democratic Citizenship and the Public Sphere, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L.C. De, A.N. Rao, D.R. Singh, Endangered Orchids and Their Conservation in North East India, in: J. Purkayastha (Ed.), Bioprospecting of Indigenous Bioresources of North-East India, Springer, Singapore, 2016: pp. 61–75.

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 European Journal of Combinatorics.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, DNA GPS Maps Where Your Ancestors Lived, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dna-gps-maps-where-your-ancestors-lived/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Financial Markets: Status of Computer Improvements at the New York Stock Exchange, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Yahyai, Optimization of a method for testing ballast water for enterococci and an investigation on the occurrence of antibiotic resistance in vibrio cholerae, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2013.

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

[1]

K. Feeney, King of Shish Kabob (With Mother-in-Law’s Help), New York Times (2010) NJ11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Combinatorics
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Comb.
ISSN (print)	0195-6698
Scope	Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics