How to format your references using the Graphs and Combinatorics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Graphs and 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	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

Stokstad, E.: MARINE CONSERVATION: Virginia Gets Crabby About Harvest Limits. Science. 289, 1122a (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Dasgupta, R., Hirschmann, M.M.: Melting in the Earth’s deep upper mantle caused by carbon dioxide. Nature. 440, 659–662 (2006)

A journal article with 3 authors

Dunningham, J., Rau, A., Burnett, K.: From pedigree cats to fluffy-bunnies. Science. 307, 872–875 (2005)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Oxley, D.R., Smith, K.B., Alford, J.R., Hibbing, M.V., Miller, J.L., Scalora, M., Hatemi, P.K., Hibbing, J.R.: Political attitudes vary with physiological traits. Science. 321, 1667–1670 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brenner, I.R.: How to Survive a Medical Malpractice Lawsuit. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, West Sussex, UK (2010)

An edited book

Mazzola, G.: Musical Creativity: Strategies and Tools in Composition and Improvisation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Simonet, A.: Automatic Production of an Operational Information System from a Domain Ontology Enriched with Behavioral Properties. In: Bellatreche, L. and Mota Pinto, F. (eds.) Model and Data Engineering: First International Conference, MEDI 2011, Óbidos, Portugal, September 28-30, 2011. Proceedings. pp. 4–17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2011)

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 Graphs and Combinatorics.

Blog post

Taub, B.: New Study Could Help Map Mankind’s Journey Out Of Africa, https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/new-study-could-help-map-mankinds-journey-out-africa/

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: Vehicle Donations: Taxpayer Considerations When Donating Vehicles to Charities. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2003)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Little, K.: Using Ancient and Modern Fishes to Track Environmental Change in the Illinois River, (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

Witz, B.: A Button-Down Game Gets a Needed Pinch of Pizazz, (2017)

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	Graphs and Combinatorics
Abbreviation	Graphs Comb.
ISSN (print)	0911-0119
ISSN (online)	1435-5914
Scope	Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics Theoretical Computer Science