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

Palmer, T.: Atmospheric science. Record-breaking winters and global climate change. Science. 344, 803–804 (2014)

A journal article with 2 authors

Martinez, F., Taylor, B.: Mantle wedge control on back-arc crustal accretion. Nature. 416, 417–420 (2002)

A journal article with 3 authors

Wilmé, L., Goodman, S.M., Ganzhorn, J.U.: Biogeographic evolution of Madagascar’s microendemic biota. Science. 312, 1063–1065 (2006)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Blanford, S., Chan, B.H.K., Jenkins, N., Sim, D., Turner, R.J., Read, A.F., Thomas, M.B.: Fungal pathogen reduces potential for malaria transmission. Science. 308, 1638–1641 (2005)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chiasson, A.D.: Geothermal Heat Pump and Heat Engine Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2016)

An edited book

Cham, T.-J., Cai, J., Dorai, C., Rajan, D., Chua, T.-S., Chia, L.-T. eds: Advances in Multimedia Modeling: 13th International Multimedia Modeling Conference, MMM 2007, Singapore, January 9-12, 2007. Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2006)

A chapter in an edited book

Gieskes, W.W.C., Leterme, S.C., Peletier, H., Edwards, M., Reid, P.C.: Phaeocystis colony distribution in the North Atlantic Ocean since 1948, and interpretation of long-term changes in the Phaeocystis hotspot in the North Sea. In: Leeuwe, M.A. van, Stefels, J., Belviso, S., Lancelot, C., Verity, P.G., and Gieskes, W.W.C. (eds.) Phaeocystis, major link in the biogeochemical cycling of climate-relevant elements. pp. 49–60. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2007)

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

Davis, J.: “Bionic Eye” Allows Blind Patients To See Again, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/bionic-eye-allows-blind-patients-to-see-again/

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: Opportunities Still Exist To Better Use the Mint’s Data Processing Center. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1981)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Donohue, J.: Resolving Past Liabilities for Future Reduction in Greenhouse Gases; Nuclear Energy and the Outstanding Federal Liability of Spent Nuclear Fuel, (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

Yeginsu, C., Rao, P.S.: Malala Yousafzai, Girls’ Advocate Shot by Taliban, Has Been Accepted to Oxford, (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

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