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]

Ramesar, R (2015 ). Genomics: African dawn. Nature. 517 276–7

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lucić, V and Baumeister, W (2005 ). Neuroscience. Monte Carlo places strong odds on ectopic release. Science. 309 387–8

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Akihiko, T, Morioka, Y and Behera, S K (2014 ). Role of climate variability in the heatstroke death rates of Kanto region in Japan. Sci. Rep. 4 5655

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Mora, C, Andrèfouët, S, Costello, M J, Kranenburg, C, Rollo, A, Veron, J, Gaston, K J and Myers, R A (2006 ). Ecology. Coral reefs and the global network of Marine Protected Areas. Science. 312 1750–1

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Perry, D E and Haluska, M J (2016 ). Hiring Greatness. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

[1]

Clerici, F (2010 ). Il Corpo in Vetrina: Cura, Immagine, Benessere, Consumo Tra Scienza Dell’alimentazione e Filosofia. Springer, Milano

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Larrañaga, P (2013 ). The Role of Constitutionalism in Regulatory Governance. The Rationality and Justification of Legislation: Essays in Legisprudence. Springer International Publishing, Heidelberg. 75–105

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]

Carpineti, A (2017 ). Neptune’s Formation May Have Been Smoother Than We Thought. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/neptunes-formation-may-have-been-smoother-than-we-thought/

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 (1981 ). The Federal Interest in Legislative-Administrative Relations in the States. 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]

Nepal, R M (2006 ). Class II MHC Function in Macrophages and Mice Infected with Mycobacterium. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

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]

Stewart, J B (2017 ). Now on Broadway, an Economics Lesson. New York Times. B1

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