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]

Alla Katsnelson. 2013. Drug development: target practice. Nature 498, 7455 (June 2013), S8-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wei Zhang and Takuzo Aida. 2012. Chemistry. Thermally responsive pulsating nanotubules. Science 337, 6101 (September 2012), 1462–1463.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Erik T. Brown, Peter Molnar, and Didier L. Bourlès. 2005. Comment on “Slip-rate measurements on the Karakorum Fault may imply secular variations in fault motion.” Science 309, 5739 (August 2005), 1326; author reply 1326.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Xonia Carvajal-Vergara, Ana Sevilla, Sunita L. D’Souza, Yen-Sin Ang, Christoph Schaniel, Dung-Fang Lee, Lei Yang, Aaron D. Kaplan, Eric D. Adler, Roye Rozov, Yongchao Ge, Ninette Cohen, Lisa J. Edelmann, Betty Chang, Avinash Waghray, Jie Su, Sherly Pardo, Klaske D. Lichtenbelt, Marco Tartaglia, Bruce D. Gelb, and Ihor R. Lemischka. 2010. Patient-specific induced pluripotent stem-cell-derived models of LEOPARD syndrome. Nature 465, 7299 (June 2010), 808–812.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Werner R. Rosenberger. 2005. Risk-Adjusted Lending Conditions. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Peter Meusburger, Derek Gregory, and Laura Suarsana (Eds.). 2015. Geographies of Knowledge and Power. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Negrini. 2011. On a Definition of Total Stability for Continuous or Discrete Dynamical Systems. In Stability Problems, L. Salvadori (ed.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 100–110.

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]

Elise Andrew. 2015. Watch This Great Video on Why We Haven’t Made Contact with Aliens... Yet. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-kurz-gesagt-video-why-we-havent-made-contact-aliensyet/

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. 1989. [Comments on Montana’s Entitlement to Restoration of Rehabilitation Funds]. 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]

Ronald J. Koller. 2014. The nonlinear relationship of individual commitment to organizational change and behavioral support. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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]

Kelly Feeney. 2006. QUICK BITE/Edison; Sandwich for Five? New York Times, 14NJ24.

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 [4, 6–8].

About the journal

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