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

Baughman, R.H.: Chemistry. Dangerously seeking linear carbon. Science. 312, 1009–1110 (2006)

A journal article with 2 authors

Guth, A.H., Kaiser, D.I.: Inflationary cosmology: exploring the universe from the smallest to the largest scales. Science. 307, 884–890 (2005)

A journal article with 3 authors

Spracklen, D.V., Arnold, S.R., Taylor, C.M.: Observations of increased tropical rainfall preceded by air passage over forests. Nature. 489, 282–285 (2012)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shackleton, M., Vaillant, F., Simpson, K.J., Stingl, J., Smyth, G.K., Asselin-Labat, M.-L., Wu, L., Lindeman, G.J., Visvader, J.E.: Generation of a functional mammary gland from a single stem cell. Nature. 439, 84–88 (2006)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Safonov, V.O.: Trustworthy Cloud Computing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ (2016)

An edited book

Ieda, H. ed: Sustainable Urban Transport in an Asian Context. Springer Japan, Tokyo (2010)

A chapter in an edited book

Maâtouk, O., Ayadi, W., Bouziri, H., Duval, B.: Evolutionary Algorithm Based on New Crossover for the Biclustering of Gene Expression Data. In: Comin, M., Käll, L., Marchiori, E., Ngom, A., and Rajapakse, J. (eds.) Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics: 9th IAPR International Conference, PRIB 2014, Stockholm, Sweden, August 21-23, 2014. Proceedings. pp. 48–59. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2014)

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

Carpineti, C.: Dogs Can Detect Breast Cancer Just By Smelling Bandages, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dogs-can-detect-breast-cancer-just-by-smelling-bandages/

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: Polar Satellites: Agencies Need to Address Potential Gaps in Weather and Climate Data Coverage. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2011)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Matta Veera Venkata, S.: Ensuring security and authentication using zero knowledge protocol in wireless sensor network applications, (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

Kenigsberg, B.: Gertrude of Arabia, (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	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