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]

Barinaga, M (2000 ). SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY: Satisfaction Sans Status. Science. 289 2025

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Nadeau, R M and McEvilly, T V (2004 ). Periodic pulsing of characteristic microearthquakes on the San Andreas fault. Science. 303 220–2

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Venkatesan, M, Fitzgerald, C B and Coey, J M D (2004 ). Thin films: unexpected magnetism in a dielectric oxide. Nature. 430 630

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Dai, Z, Xu, L, Duan, G, Li, T, Zhang, H, Li, Y, Wang, Y, Wang, Y and Cai, W (2013 ). Fast-response, sensitivitive and low-powered chemosensors by fusing nanostructured porous thin film and IDEs-microheater chip. Sci. Rep. 3 1669

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Paladino, B (2013 ). Corporate Performance Management Best Practices. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

[1]

Howland, R A (2006 ). Intermediate Dynamics: A Linear Algebraic Approach. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Taylor, I J and Harrison, A B (2009 ). Distributed Security Techniques. From P2P and Grids to Services on the Web: Evolving Distributed Communities. Springer, London. 61–77

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, D (2016 ). Humans Are Wired For Prejudice But That Doesn’t Have To Be The End Of The Story. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/humans-are-wired-for-prejudice-but-that-doesnt-have-to-be-the-end-of-the-story/

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 (1992 ). Aircraft Certification: Limited Progress on Developing International Design Standards. 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]

Collette, J C (2017 ). Validation of the TgFgfr1-EGFP Mouse Line as a Tool to Study Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 1 Cellular Localization and Expression After Experimental Manipulations. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA

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]

Pilon, M (2014 ). Skating’s New Scoring System Adds to Challenge for American Men. New York Times. SP11

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