How to format your references using the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications citation style

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

Johnson, C.N.: Anthropology. The remaking of Australia’s ecology. Science. 309, 255–256 (2005)

A journal article with 2 authors

Valsami-Jones, E., Lynch, I.: NANOSAFETY. How safe are nanomaterials? Science. 350, 388–389 (2015)

A journal article with 3 authors

Wilson, A.H., Shirey, S.B., Carlson, R.W.: Archaean ultra-depleted komatiites formed by hydrous melting of cratonic mantle. Nature. 423, 858–861 (2003)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zaratiegui, M., Castel, S.E., Irvine, D.V., Kloc, A., Ren, J., Li, F., de Castro, E., Marín, L., Chang, A.-Y., Goto, D., Cande, W.Z., Antequera, F., Arcangioli, B., Martienssen, R.A.: RNAi promotes heterochromatic silencing through replication-coupled release of RNA Pol II. Nature. 479, 135–138 (2011)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tripathi, N., Singh, R.S., Hills, C.D.: Reclamation of Mine-Impacted Land for Ecosystem Recovery. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2016)

An edited book

Kappel, G., Maamar, Z., Motahari-Nezhad, H.R. eds: Service-Oriented Computing: 9th International Conference, ICSOC 2011, Paphos, Cyprus, December 5-8, 2011 Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

McGoldrick, P.J., Keeling, K.A., Stanbridge, A.: Motivating Pro-Environmental Behaviors: Utility of the Decisional Balance Scale, Self-Efficacy and Reactance. In: Robinson, L., Jr. (ed.) Proceedings of the 2009 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference. pp. 5–5. 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 Optimization Theory and Applications.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: LightSail Loses Contact Thanks To Software Glitch, https://www.iflscience.com/space/software-glitch-halts-solar-sail/

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: EPA Science Advisory Panels: Preliminary Observations on the Processes for Providing Scientific Advice. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2015)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kolb, J.N.: What’s professional development got to do with it? The value of lesson study in implementing the common core standards for mathematical practices, (2015)

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

Saslow, L.: Amid Concerns, Counties Move to Limit Taxes, (2006)

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 Optimization Theory and Applications
Abbreviation	J. Optim. Theory Appl.
ISSN (print)	0022-3239
ISSN (online)	1573-2878
Scope	Management Science and Operations Research Applied Mathematics Control and Optimization