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]

A.S.-H. Huang, Follow your nose, Nature 428 (2004) 221–222.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G.-W. Li, X.S. Xie, Central dogma at the single-molecule level in living cells, Nature 475 (2011) 308–315.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.D. Clayton, C.P. Kyriacou, S.M. Reppert, Keeping time with the human genome, Nature 409 (2001) 829–831.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C.-L. Chen, J. Qi, J. Tao, R.N. Zuckermann, J.J. DeYoreo, Tuning calcite morphology and growth acceleration by a rational design of highly stable protein-mimetics, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6266.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Kang, Micro/Nano Replication, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

A.V. Gevorkyan, O. Canuto, eds., Financial Deepening and Post-Crisis Development in Emerging Markets: Current Perils and Future Dawns, Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E.B. Souto, J.F. Fangueiro, R.H. Müller, Solid Lipid Nanoparticles (SLN^TM), in: I.F. Uchegbu, A.G. Schätzlein, W.P. Cheng, A. Lalatsa (Eds.), Fundamentals of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience, Springer, New York, NY, 2013: pp. 91–116.

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]

E. Andrew, Polar Invasion: How Plants And Animals Would Colonise An Ice-Free Antarctica, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/polar-invasion-how-plants-and-animals-would-colonise-ice-free-antarctica/ (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, Local Coordination Prevents Duplication of Services at Federally Sponsored Indian Education Projects, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E.W. Ayer, An N-gram enhanced learning classifier for Chinese character recognition, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

J. Longman, A Description as Enigmatic as How to Escape a Slump, New York Times (2015) SP5.

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