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]

H. Höfte. 2001. Plant biology. A Baroque residue in red wine. Science 294, 5543 (October 2001), 795–797.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Pedro G. Ferreira and Glenn D. Starkman. 2009. Einstein’s theory of gravity and the problem of missing mass. Science 326, 5954 (November 2009), 812–815.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Vicki Plaks, Charlotte D. Koopman, and Zena Werb. 2013. Cancer. Circulating tumor cells. Science 341, 6151 (September 2013), 1186–1188.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Guang S. He, Przemyslaw P. Markowicz, Tzu-Chau Lin, and Paras N. Prasad. 2002. Observation of stimulated emission by direct three-photon excitation. Nature 415, 6873 (February 2002), 767–770.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Jean-Claude Diels and Ladan Arissian. 2011. Lasers. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

[1]

Michael Wendler, Bernard Buecker, and Bernd Tremml (Eds.). 2006. Key Aspects of German Business Law: A Practical Manual (Third Edition ed.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. F. Broccard and F. Feihl. 2008. Interactions Between the Pulmonary Circulation and Ventilation: An Overview for Intensivists. In Respiratory System and Artificial Ventilation, Umberto Lucangelo, Paolo Pelosi, Walter A. Zin and Andrea Aliverti (eds.). Springer, Milano, 47–69.

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]

Jonathan O`Callaghan. 2015. Discovery Of Cosmic Web Feeding A Protogalaxy Could Reveal How Galaxies Form. IFLScience.

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. 1999. Managed Care: State Approaches on Selected Patient Protections. 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]

Jeri W. Stevens. 2008. Perception of counselor ethical behavior: A quantitative look at dual relationships in Maine. 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]

Susan Hodara. 2015. Making All the World Their Stage. New York Times, WE9.

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 [3, 4].
This sentence cites four references [3, 5, 7, 8].

About the journal

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