How to format your references using the Mathematical Methods of Operations Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mathematical Methods of 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

Vicsek T (2001) A question of scale. Nature 411:421

A journal article with 2 authors

Davidson K, Humphreys RM (2012) The Great Eruption of η Carinae. Nature 486:E1; discussion E1-2

A journal article with 3 authors

Mojzsis SJ, Harrison TM, Pidgeon RT (2001) Oxygen-isotope evidence from ancient zircons for liquid water at the Earth’s surface 4,300 Myr ago. Nature 409:178–181

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kishimoto M, Antonucci R, Blaes O, et al (2008) The characteristic blue spectra of accretion disks in quasars as uncovered in the infrared. Nature 454:492–494

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

El-Reedy MA (2016) Project Management in the Oil and Gas Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Singh A, Devine M (eds) (2013) Rural Transformation and Newfoundland and Labrador Diaspora: Grandparents, Grandparenting, Community and School Relations. SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

Crowder JA, Carbone JN, Demijohn R (2016) Systems Engineering Tools and Practices. In: Carbone JN, Demijohn R (eds) Multidisciplinary Systems Engineering: Architecting the Design Process. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 89–103

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 Mathematical Methods of Operations Research.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Spectacular New Image Shows Planet Formation In Incredible Detail. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/stunning-new-image-showcases-planet-formation-incredible-detail/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1979) Army’s FY 1980 Programs for Procuring Conventional Ammunition, Modernization, and Expansion. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shah SK (2017) Data Transmission Using Image Steganography in Quick Response (QR) Code. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Greenhouse L (2008) Justices Block New Hearing for Mexican. New York Times A16

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vicsek 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Vicsek 2001; Davidson and Humphreys 2012).

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

Two authors: (Davidson and Humphreys 2012)
Three or more authors: (Kishimoto et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mathematical Methods of Operations Research
Abbreviation	Math. Methods Oper. Res. (Heidelb.)
ISSN (print)	1432-2994
ISSN (online)	1432-5217
Scope	Software Management Science and Operations Research General Mathematics