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

Shelach, G.: Anthropology. On the invention of pottery. Science. 336, 1644–1645 (2012)

A journal article with 2 authors

Williams, W.M., Ceci, S.J.: Recruiters and academia. Academics worry about hiring “undiscovered geniuses.” Nature. 435, 534 (2005)

A journal article with 3 authors

Killgore, W.D.S., Olson, E.A., Weber, M.: Physical exercise habits correlate with gray matter volume of the hippocampus in healthy adult humans. Sci. Rep. 3, 3457 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Westermann, S., Wang, H.-W., Avila-Sakar, A., Drubin, D.G., Nogales, E., Barnes, G.: The Dam1 kinetochore ring complex moves processively on depolymerizing microtubule ends. Nature. 440, 565–569 (2006)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Attoh-Okine, N.O.: Big Data and Differential Privacy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2017)

An edited book

Casazza, P.G., Kutyniok, G. eds: Finite Frames: Theory and Applications. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Turner, D.: Unresolved Issues in Globalisation, Decentralisation and Privatisation. In: Zajda, J. and Gamage, D.T. (eds.) Decentralisation, School-Based Management, and Quality. pp. 67–75. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2009)

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

Davis, J.: Belgian Neanderthals Were Butchering Their Dead, https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/belgian-neanderthals-were-butchering-their-dead/

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: Centralized Subsystem for Paying Officers in the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1977)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McNamee, L.: Best Practices in Higher Education Faculty Motivation, (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

Eligon, J., Smith, M.: Woman Shot by Minneapolis Officer ‘Didn’t Have to Die,’ Police Chief Says, (2017)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shelach 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Shelach 2012; Williams and Ceci 2005).

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

Two authors: (Williams and Ceci 2005)
Three or more authors: (Westermann 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

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