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

Huybers, P.: Atmosphere. Antarctica’s orbital beat. Science. 325, 1085–1086 (2009)

A journal article with 2 authors

Hinton, G.E., Salakhutdinov, R.R.: Reducing the dimensionality of data with neural networks. Science. 313, 504–507 (2006)

A journal article with 3 authors

Halazonetis, T.D., Gorgoulis, V.G., Bartek, J.: An oncogene-induced DNA damage model for cancer development. Science. 319, 1352–1355 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Navarro, L., Dunoyer, P., Jay, F., Arnold, B., Dharmasiri, N., Estelle, M., Voinnet, O., Jones, J.D.G.: A plant miRNA contributes to antibacterial resistance by repressing auxin signaling. Science. 312, 436–439 (2006)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Allsopp, W.: Advanced Penetration Testing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana (2017)

An edited book

Liebenberg, E., Collier, P., Török, Z.G. eds: History of Cartography: International Symposium of the ICA, 2012. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Taivan, C., José, R.: An Application Framework for Open Application Development and Distribution in Pervasive Display Networks. In: Meersman, R., Dillon, T., and Herrero, P. (eds.) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2011 Workshops: Confederated International Workshops and Posters: EI2N+NSF ICE, ICSP+INBAST, ISDE, ORM, OTMA, SWWS+MONET+SeDeS, and VADER 2011, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, October 17-21, 2011. Proceedings. pp. 21–25. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2011)

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

Carpineti, A.: Glass Might Have A New Phase Of Matter Thanks To Infinite Dimensions Calculation

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: Automatic Data Processing Policies, Procedures, and Practices at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, California. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1971)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Whitbeck, D.C.: Mapping of Sonoran Desert vegetation communities of San Cristobal Valley and southern Sentinel Plains, Barry M. Goldwater Range and variables influencing route proliferation in the Barry M. Goldwater Range’s San Cristobal Valley, (2013)

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

Baker, L.: In Vancouver, a New Effort to Sell Olympic Condos, (2011)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Huybers 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Hinton and Salakhutdinov 2006; Huybers 2009).

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

Two authors: (Hinton and Salakhutdinov 2006)
Three or more authors: (Navarro et al. 2006)

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