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

Cook-Deegan, R.: Public health. Boosting health services research. Science. 333, 1384–1385 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Howard, J.A.K., Probert, M.R.: Cutting-edge techniques used for the structural investigation of single crystals. Science. 343, 1098–1102 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Deng, L., Shangguan, Z.-P., Sweeney, S.: “Grain for Green” driven land use change and carbon sequestration on the Loess Plateau, China. Sci. Rep. 4, 7039 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Seo, J.S., Whang, D., Lee, H., Jun, S.I., Oh, J., Jeon, Y.J., Kim, K.: A homochiral metal-organic porous material for enantioselective separation and catalysis. Nature. 404, 982–986 (2000)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Drake, P.P., Fabozzi, F.J.: Foundations and Applications of the Time Value of Money. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2009)

An edited book

Kudenko, D., Kazakov, D., Alonso, E. eds: Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems II: Adaptation and Multi-Agent Learning. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2005)

A chapter in an edited book

Boer, J., Hoek, A., Elzerman, H.: Social Desirability: Consumer Aspects. In: Aiking, H., Boer, J. de, and Vereijken, J. (eds.) Sustainable Protein Production and Consumption: Pigs or Peas? pp. 99–127. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2006)

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.: Exposed: The Private Lives Of Hairy-Chested ‘Hoff Crabs,’ https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/exposed-private-lives-hairy-chested-hoff-crabs/

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: Direct Student Loans: Selected Characteristics of Participating Schools. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1995)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ehsani, S.: Design of a Teleoperation – Based Robotic Surgical System, (2014)

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

(nyt), S.K.: World Briefing | Europe: Lithuania: Presidential Runoff, (2002)

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

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