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

Blumberg, B.S.: Obituary: Joshua Lederberg (1925-2008). Nature. 452, 422 (2008)

A journal article with 2 authors

Blaauw, M., Christen, J.A.: The problems of radiocarbon dating. Science. 308, 1551–3; author reply 1551-3 (2005)

A journal article with 3 authors

He, W., Cowin, P., Stokes, D.L.: Untangling desmosomal knots with electron tomography. Science. 302, 109–113 (2003)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liljegren, S.J., Ditta, G.S., Eshed, Y., Savidge, B., Bowman, J.L., Yanofsky, M.F.: SHATTERPROOF MADS-box genes control seed dispersal in Arabidopsis. Nature. 404, 766–770 (2000)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cumming, D.: Private Equity. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2010)

An edited book

Campbell, C.L. ed: Marketing in Transition: Scarcity, Globalism, & Sustainability: Proceedings of the 2009 World Marketing Congress. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Chandra, R., Gupta, A., Ong, Y.-S., Goh, C.-K.: Evolutionary Multi-task Learning for Modular Training of Feedforward Neural Networks. In: Hirose, A., Ozawa, S., Doya, K., Ikeda, K., Lee, M., and Liu, D. (eds.) Neural Information Processing: 23rd International Conference, ICONIP 2016, Kyoto, Japan, October 16–21, 2016, Proceedings, Part II. pp. 37–46. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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

Davis, J.: Comprehensive Review Of Statins Finds The Benefits Far Outweigh The Risks, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/comprehensive-review-of-statins-finds-the-benefits-far-outweigh-the-risks/

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: SSA Computers: Long-Range Vision Needed to Guide Future Systems Modernization Efforts. 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

Bacus, M.: Disturb the Morning, (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

Wagner, J.: Reyes Raises His Game, and His Team’s Spirits, (2016)

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

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