How to format your references using the Journal of Global Optimization citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Global Optimization. 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

Eisenberg, L.: Seymour S. Kety (1915-2000). Nature. 406, 472 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Matsuda, N., Tanaka, K.: Cell biology: Tagged tags engage disposal. Nature. 524, 294–295 (2015)

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, Z.-Y., Sun, K.-D., Wang, S.-Q.: Enhanced community structure detection in complex networks with partial background information. Sci. Rep. 3, 3241 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Agliari, E., Biselli, E., De Ninno, A., Schiavoni, G., Gabriele, L., Gerardino, A., Mattei, F., Barra, A., Businaro, L.: Cancer-driven dynamics of immune cells in a microfluidic environment. Sci. Rep. 4, 6639 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Porter, A.L., Cunningham, S.W.: Tech Mining. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2004)

An edited book

Jain, S.M., Gupta, P.K. eds: Protocol for Somatic Embryogenesis in Woody Plants. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2005)

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, Q., Zhang, C., Zhang, S.: Uncertainty Issues in Secure Messages. In: Zhang, C. and Zhang, S. (eds.) Secure Transaction Protocol Analysis: Models and Applications. pp. 131–173. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2008)

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 Global Optimization.

Blog post

Fang, J.: Killer Cholera Bacterium Stabs Others With Tiny Spear, Steals DNA

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

Government Accountability Office: NASA: Challenges in Completing and Sustaining the International Space Station. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2008)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Almasaari, A.H.: Arab American women’s identity crises in Mohja Kahf’s “The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf” and Laila Halaby’s “West of the Jordan,” (2017)

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

Shear, M.D., Landler, M.: U.S. Withholding Its Endorsement on Climate Pact, (2017)

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 Global Optimization
Abbreviation	J. Glob. Optim.
ISSN (print)	0925-5001
ISSN (online)	1573-2916
Scope	Computer Science Applications Management Science and Operations Research Applied Mathematics Control and Optimization