How to format your references using the Journal of Experimental Algorithmics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Experimental Algorithmics (JEA). 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]

Jeremy E. Niven. 2012. Behavior. How honeybees break a decision-making deadlock. Science 335, 6064 (January 2012), 43–44.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Steffen Sykora and Klaus W. Becker. 2013. Heavy fermion properties of the Kondo Lattice model. Sci. Rep. 3, (2013), 2691.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

James Schummers, Hongbo Yu, and Mriganka Sur. 2008. Tuned responses of astrocytes and their influence on hemodynamic signals in the visual cortex. Science 320, 5883 (June 2008), 1638–1643.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

G. A. Deluga, J. R. Salge, L. D. Schmidt, and X. E. Verykios. 2004. Renewable hydrogen from ethanol by autothermal reforming. Science 303, 5660 (February 2004), 993–997.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Martin Cohen. 2010. Mind Games. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

[1]

R. Jeroen Pasterkamp, Marten P. Smidt, and J. Peter H. Burbach (Eds.). 2009. Development and Engineering of Dopamine Neurons. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Benoit Baudry, Christophe Gaston, and Sudipto Ghosh. 2006. Report on the 2nd Workshop on Model Development and Validation – MoDeVa. In Satellite Events at the MoDELS 2005 Conference: MoDELS 2005 International Workshops Doctoral Symposium, Educators Symposium Montego Bay, Jamaica, October 2-7, 2005 Revised Selected Papers, Jean-Michel Bruel (ed.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 32–38.

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 Experimental Algorithmics.

Blog post

[1]

Janet Fang. 2015. Moth Night Vision is Specialized for Tracking Flowers Swaying in the Breeze. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/moth-night-vision-specialized-tracking-flowers-swaying-breeze/

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. 2003. Aviation Safety: Undeclared Air Shipments of Dangerous Goods and DOT’s Enforcement Approach. 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]

Ryan Jared Mete. 2010. Can STEM initiatives be social justice oriented: An analysis of urban school reform via smaller learning communities. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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]

Liz Alderman. 2013. Romanian’s Tale Has Art World Fearing Worst. 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 [2].
This sentence cites two references [2, 4].
This sentence cites four references [3, 6–8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Experimental Algorithmics
Abbreviation	J. Exp. Algorithmics
ISSN (online)	1084-6654
Scope	Theoretical Computer Science