How to format your references using the Journal of Heuristics citation style

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

Hardie, D.G.: Transcription. Targeting the core of transcription. Science. 329, 1158–1159 (2010)

A journal article with 2 authors

Shim, M., Guyot-Sionnest, P.: n-type colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals. Nature. 407, 981–983 (2000)

A journal article with 3 authors

Catrysse, P.B., Liu, V., Fan, S.: Complete power concentration into a single waveguide in large-scale waveguide array lenses. Sci. Rep. 4, 6635 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yue, Q., Xiong, S., Cai, D., Wu, Z., Zhang, X.: Facile and quantitative electrochemical detection of yeast cell apoptosis. Sci. Rep. 4, 4373 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anaya-Lara, O., Campos-Gaona, D., Moreno-Goytia, E., Adam, G.: Offshore Wind Energy Generation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2014)

An edited book

Demokritov, S.O., Slavin, A.N. eds: Magnonics: From Fundamentals to Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Foster, J.E.: Poverty Indices. In: Janvry, A. de and Kanbur, R. (eds.) Poverty, Inequality and Development: Essays in Honor of Erik Thorbecke. pp. 41–65. Springer US, Boston, MA (2006)

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 Heuristics.

Blog post

Fang, J.: New Genomic Analysis Shakes Up Bird Family Tree, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/longstanding-bird-family-tree-mystery-solved/

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: Aging Aircraft Maintenance: Additional FAA Oversight Needed. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1991)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Prochorchik, V.L.: Increasing infant mental health awareness, (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

Gustines, G.G.: Archie Comic Picks Film and TV Writer for Top Creative Post, (2014)

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Hardie 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Hardie 2010; Shim and Guyot-Sionnest 2000).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Shim and Guyot-Sionnest 2000)
Three or more authors: (Yue et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Heuristics
Abbreviation	J. Heuristics
ISSN (print)	1381-1231
ISSN (online)	1572-9397
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Computer Networks and Communications Information Systems Software Management Science and Operations Research Control and Optimization