How to format your references using the Journal of Discrete Algorithms citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Discrete Algorithms. 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	Download the output style file
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]

S. Corbel, Astronomy. Watching black holes spin, Science. 303 (2004) 1480–1481.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.M. Nadeau, D. Dolenc, Nonvolcanic tremors deep beneath the San Andreas Fault, Science. 307 (2005) 389.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.R. Krumholz, C.F. McKee, R.I. Klein, The formation of stars by gravitational collapse rather than competitive accretion, Nature. 438 (2005) 332–334.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Salmeen, J.N. Andersen, M.P. Myers, T.-C. Meng, J.A. Hinks, N.K. Tonks, D. Barford, Redox regulation of protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B involves a sulphenyl-amide intermediate, Nature. 423 (2003) 769–773.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. Brown, R. Prescott, Applied Mixed Models in Medicine, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

B.J. Dunlap, ed., Proceedings of the 1990 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S.H. Hashemi, D. Domairry, Introduction of Considerable Oscillatory Systems, in: D.D. Ganji (Ed.), Dynamics and Vibrations: Progress in Nonlinear Analysis, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014: pp. 185–247.

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 Discrete Algorithms.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, These Two Black Holes Are On The Brink Of Merging Into One, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/closest-ever-pair-merging-black-holes-spotted/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, Gas Pipeline Safety: Guidance and More Information Needed before Using Risk-Based Reassessment Intervals, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Y.-J. Lee, Copying and summarizing: Possible tools to develop English reading and writing for university students of different proficiency levels in Korea, Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 2010.

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]

B. Sisario, Prince Estate in Deal With Universal, New York Times. (2017) C2.

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 Discrete Algorithms
Abbreviation	J. Discrete Algorithms (Amst.)
ISSN (print)	1570-8667
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics Theoretical Computer Science

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