How to format your references using the Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making. 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

Abbott, A. (2001). Human Proteome Index launched. Nature, 409(6816), 3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cyranoski, D., & Chou, I.-H. (2004). Winds of change blow away the cobwebs on campus. Nature, 429(6988), 210–214.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lederer, W. J., Hagen, B. M., & Zhao, G. (2012). Cell biology. Superresolution subspace signaling. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6081), 546–547.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Li, Y., Jalil, M. B. A., Tan, S. G., Zhao, W., Bai, R., & Zhou, G. H. (2014). Chiral tunneling modulated by a time-periodic potential on the surface states of a topological insulator. Scientific reports, 4, 4624.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

DiBattista, M. (2010). Novel Characters. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Jing, X. (2015). Frequency Domain Analysis and Design of Nonlinear Systems based on Volterra Series Expansion: A Parametric Characteristic Approach. (Z. Lang, Ed.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Sakti, S., Nakamura, S., Markov, K., & Minker, W. (2009). Speech Recognition Using GFIKS. In S. Nakamura, K. Markov, & S. Sakti (Eds.), Incorporating Knowledge Sources into Statistical Speech Recognition (pp. 1–59). Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 26). Why Tomatoes are Fruits, and Strawberries Aren’t Berries. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-tomatoes-are-fruits-and-strawberries-arent-berries/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1998). Customs Service Modernization: Architecture Must Be Complete and Enforced to Effectively Build and Maintain Systems (No. AIMD-98-70). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Woods, B. A. (2006). The Perceived Efficacy of an Empowerment Model of Youth Development among Vermont Educational Leaders (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Cooper, M. (2017, August 22). The Storming of Mount Salzburg. New York Times, p. AR8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott 2001; Cyranoski and Chou 2004).

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

Two authors: (Cyranoski and Chou 2004)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making
Abbreviation	Fuzzy Optim. Decis. Mak.
ISSN (print)	1568-4539
ISSN (online)	1573-2908
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Software Logic