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

Mackinnon, R.: Structural biology. Voltage sensor meets lipid membrane. Science. 306, 1304–1305 (2004)

A journal article with 2 authors

Treseder, K.K., Holden, S.R.: Ecology. Fungal carbon sequestration. Science. 339, 1528–1529 (2013)

A journal article with 3 authors

Goossen, L.J., Deng, G., Levy, L.M.: Synthesis of biaryls via catalytic decarboxylative coupling. Science. 313, 662–664 (2006)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kipp, L., Skibowski, M., Johnson, R.L., Berndt, R., Adelung, R., Harm, S., Seemann, R.: Sharper images by focusing soft X-rays with photon sieves. Nature. 414, 184–188 (2001)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Knowles, R.: 150 Contractual Problems and their Solutions. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK (2008)

An edited book

Scheschkewitz, D. ed: Functional Molecular Silicon Compounds I: Regular Oxidation States. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Langbein, J.: The Transnationalization of Change in Economic Institutions: The Case of Industrial Standards Regulations in Ukraine. In: Bruszt, L. and Holzhacker, R. (eds.) The Transnationalization of Economies, States, and Civil Societies: New Challenges for Governance in Europe. pp. 107–133. Springer US, New York, NY (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 Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Asteroids Might Have Delivered Water To Earth

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: Information on the Requirement for Strategic Airlift. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1976)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Slayton, K.A.: A psychoeducational support group for families of youth experiencing symptoms of schizophrenia: A grant proposal, (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

Shear, M.D.: Trump, Inspired by France, Wants to Show Off Military Might With a July 4 Parade, (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