How to format your references using the Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms in Operations Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms in Operations Research. 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

Chalker, D.L.: Epigenetics: Keeping one’s sex. Nature. 509, 430–431 (2014)

A journal article with 2 authors

Armitage, A.E., Drakesmith, H.: Genetics. The battle for iron. Science. 346, 1299–1300 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Daigaku, Y., Davies, A.A., Ulrich, H.D.: Ubiquitin-dependent DNA damage bypass is separable from genome replication. Nature. 465, 951–955 (2010)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Waldo, G.L., Ricks, T.K., Hicks, S.N., Cheever, M.L., Kawano, T., Tsuboi, K., Wang, X., Montell, C., Kozasa, T., Sondek, J., Harden, T.K.: Kinetic scaffolding mediated by a phospholipase C-beta and Gq signaling complex. Science. 330, 974–980 (2010)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wilson, D.A.: Interpreting Land Records. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2014)

An edited book

Bougé, L., Forsell, M., Träff, J.L., Streit, A., Ziegler, W., Alexander, M., Childs, S. eds: Euro-Par 2007 Workshops: Parallel Processing: HPPC 2007, UNICORE Summit 2007, and VHPC 2007, Rennes, France, August 28-31, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2008)

A chapter in an edited book

Jin, C., Liu, J., Guo, J.: A Hybrid Model Based on Mutual Information and Support Vector Machine for Automatic Image Annotation. In: Silhavy, R., Senkerik, R., Oplatkova, Z.K., Prokopova, Z., and Silhavy, P. (eds.) Artificial Intelligence Perspectives and Applications: Proceedings of the 4th Computer Science On-line Conference 2015 (CSOC2015), Vol 1: Artificial Intelligence Perspectives and Applications. pp. 29–38. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

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 Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms in Operations Research.

Blog post

Davis, J.: Researchers Create A Computer That Works Using Water

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: Construction of a Computer Facilities Building by the Social Security Administration: Justification and Alternatives. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1976)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Taaz, Z.: Boiler automation and monitoring of temperature and steam flow using Simulink, (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

Walsh, M.W.: Inquiry Focuses on White House Role in Preserving Union Pensions at Delphi, (2010)

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 Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms in Operations Research
ISSN (print)	1570-1166
ISSN (online)	1572-9214
Scope

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