How to format your references using the Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Algebraic 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

Moore, P.D.: A never-ending story. Nature. 409, 565 (2001)

A journal article with 2 authors

García-Bellido, D.C., Collins, D.H.: Moulting arthropod caught in the act. Nature. 429, 40 (2004)

A journal article with 3 authors

Bongard, J., Zykov, V., Lipson, H.: Resilient machines through continuous self-modeling. Science. 314, 1118–1121 (2006)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Andreev, V.P., Head, T., Johnson, N., Deo, S.K., Daunert, S., Goldschmidt-Clermont, P.J.: Discrete event simulation model of sudden cardiac death predicts high impact of preventive interventions. Sci. Rep. 3, 1771 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonk, C.J.: The World is Open. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, USA (2011)

An edited book

Kern, E.-M., Hegering, H.-G., Brügge, B. eds: Managing Development and Application of Digital Technologies: Research Insights in the Munich Center for Digital Technology & Management (CDTM). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2006)

A chapter in an edited book

Frost, L.: The Pleasures of Dystopia. In: Greenberg, J. and Waddell, N. (eds.) “Brave New World”: Contexts and Legacies. pp. 69–88. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London (2016)

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 Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics.

Blog post

Andrews, R.: Climate Change May Fan The Flames Of War And Make Violent Crime More Common, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/climate-change-may-fan-the-flames-of-war-and-make-violent-crime-more-common/

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: A Capsule Version of: Nanomanufacturing--Emergence and Implications for U.S. Competitiveness, the Environment, and Human Health. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2014)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yahil, R.J.: The role of interleukin-19 in interleukin-10 production by regulatory macrophages, (2010)

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

Marx, L.: A Modern Marriage With Multiple Parts, (2015)

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	Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics
Abbreviation	J. Algebraic Combin.
ISSN (print)	0925-9899
ISSN (online)	1572-9192
Scope	Algebra and Number Theory Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics