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

Shendure, J. (2010). Journal club. A geneticist discusses a way to assess the effects of disease-causing gene mutations. Nature, 463(7280), 405.

A journal article with 2 authors

Costache, M. V., & Valenzuela, S. O. (2010). Experimental spin ratchet. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6011), 1645–1648.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hu, Y., Lee, C. C., & Ribbe, M. W. (2011). Extending the carbon chain: hydrocarbon formation catalyzed by vanadium/molybdenum nitrogenases. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6043), 753–755.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

de Villeneuve, V. W. A., Dullens, R. P. A., Aarts, D. G. A. L., Groeneveld, E., Scherff, J. H., Kegel, W. K., & Lekkerkerker, H. N. W. (2005). Colloidal hard-sphere crystal growth frustrated by large spherical impurities. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5738), 1231–1233.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rogers, D. W. (2010). Concise Physical Chemistry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jambor, A. (2016). Competitiveness of Global Agriculture: Policy Lessons for Food Security. (S. Babu, Ed.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Gonzalez, M. A. (2010). Badlands of the Northern Great Plains: Hell with the Fires Out. In P. Migon (Ed.), Geomorphological Landscapes of the World (pp. 29–38). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Carpineti, C. (2012, January 1). Watch What Happens When An Octopus Gets In The Way Of A Crab Migration. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (1993). Student Financial Aid Programs: Pell Grant Program Abuse (No. T-OSI-94-8). 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

Payne, L. G. (2015). The experience of caring for women with drug or alcohol problems in the general hospital (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

Wagner, J. (2017, August 13). Mets, Shedding Veterans, Send Walker to Brewers. New York Times, p. SP5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shendure 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Costache and Valenzuela 2010; Shendure 2010).

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

Two authors: (Costache and Valenzuela 2010)
Three or more authors: (de Villeneuve et al. 2005)

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