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

von Hobe, M.: Atmospheric science. Revisiting ozone depletion. Science. 318, 1878–1879 (2007)

A journal article with 2 authors

Fossum, A., Carlsson, M.: High-frequency acoustic waves are not sufficient to heat the solar chromosphere. Nature. 435, 919–921 (2005)

A journal article with 3 authors

Finn, C.A., Sisson, T.W., Deszcz-Pan, M.: Aerogeophysical measurements of collapse-prone hydrothermally altered zones at Mount Rainier volcano. Nature. 409, 600–603 (2001)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Peng, Y., Ellis, B.D., Wang, X., Fettinger, J.C., Power, P.P.: Reversible reactions of ethylene with distannynes under ambient conditions. Science. 325, 1668–1670 (2009)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kupka, H.J.: Transitions in Molecular Systems. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany (2010)

An edited book

Luk’yanchuk, I.A., Mezzane, D. eds: Smart Materials for Energy, Communications and Security. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2008)

A chapter in an edited book

Giacomazzi, P., Poli, A.: Cost-Performance Planning of Municipal Wireless Access Networks. In: Wang, C. (ed.) AccessNets: Third International Conference on Access Networks, AccessNets 2008, Las Vegas, NV, USA, October 15-17, 2008. Revised Papers. pp. 46–61. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009)

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

Fang, J.: Why Net-Casting Spiders Have Such Enormous Eyes, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-net-casting-spiders-have-such-enormous-eyes/

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: Aviation Safety: FAA and DOD Response to Similar Safety Concerns. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2001)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Winhusen, E.R.: Precambrian Seawater Temperature Analysis Using Oxygen Isotopes from Hamersley Carbonates, Western Australia, (2001)

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

CHARKES; Mary Jo, J., Reporting, L.S.C.: A Spring Surprise: Openings in Preschools, (2009)

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