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

Wilczek, F.: An explorer and surveyor. Nature. 437, 1095 (2005)

A journal article with 2 authors

Fitoussi, C., Bourdon, B.: Silicon isotope evidence against an enstatite chondrite Earth. Science. 335, 1477–1480 (2012)

A journal article with 3 authors

Rogers, J.A., Lagally, M.G., Nuzzo, R.G.: Synthesis, assembly and applications of semiconductor nanomembranes. Nature. 477, 45–53 (2011)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, H., Xin, H.L., Muller, D.A., Estroff, L.A.: Visualizing the 3D internal structure of calcite single crystals grown in agarose hydrogels. Science. 326, 1244–1247 (2009)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mohanty, S., Ghosh, R.: Planning a Scientific Career in Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2010)

An edited book

Sano, K., Soudris, D., Hübner, M., Diniz, P.C. eds: Applied Reconfigurable Computing: 11th International Symposium, ARC 2015, Bochum, Germany, April 13-17, 2015, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Ibraguimova, L., Shatalov, O.: Non-equilibrium Kinetics behind Shock Waves Experimental Aspects. In: Brun, R. (ed.) High Temperature Phenomena in Shock Waves. pp. 99–147. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012)

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

Andrew, E.: Study Of More Than 3,500 Human Brains Reveals The Cause Of Alzheimer’s Disease, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/study-suggests-tau-not-amyloid-major-driver-alzheimers/

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: Federal Communications Commission: Wireless Radio Services--Compatibility with Enhanced 911 Emergency Calling Systems. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1999)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sumi, S.J.: Eco-Hydrology Driven Evaluation of Statistically Downscaled Precipitation CMIP5 Climate Model Simulations over Louisiana, (2015)

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

DE WITT with MICHAEL KELLY, K.: THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Candidate’s Record; Perot Pursued Charges Against Official for Years, (1992)

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