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

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

[1]

Macilwain, C (2013 ). Sharing information is preferable to patenting. Nature. 498 273

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Clandinin, T R and Giocomo, L M (2015 ). Neuroscience: Internal compass puts flies in their place. Nature. 521 165–6

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Dicke, M, van Loon, J J A and de Jong, P W (2004 ). Ecology. Ecogenomics benefits community ecology. Science. 305 618–9

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Drinnenberg, I A, Weinberg, D E, Xie, K T, Mower, J P, Wolfe, K H, Fink, G R and Bartel, D P (2009 ). RNAi in budding yeast. Science. 326 544–50

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kukushkin, A (2004 ). Radio Wave Propagation in the Marine Boundary Layer. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

[1]

(2013 ). Graph Drawing: 20th International Symposium, GD 2012, Redmond, WA, USA, September 19-21, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Chen, J, Su, G, He, J and Ben, S (2010 ). Face Image Relighting using Locally Constrained Global Optimization. Computer Vision – ECCV 2010: 11th European Conference on Computer Vision, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 5-11, 2010, Proceedings, Part IV. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. 44–57

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 Combinatorics.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew, E (2013 ). Mid-Sized Planetary Body in Kuiper Belt Could Float In Water. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/mid-sized-planetary-body-kuiper-belt-could-float-water/

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office (1971 ). Computer Simulations, War Gaming, and Contract Studies. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Pokhrel, P (2010 ). Towards Improved Identification of Spatially-Distributed Rainfall Runoff Models. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

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

[1]

Rutenberg, J, Steel, E and Koblin, J (2016 ). Kisses and Fear for the Women From Fox News. New York Times. A1

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 Combinatorics
Abbreviation	J. Comb.
ISSN (print)	2156-3527
ISSN (online)	2150-959X
Scope