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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Bocquet-Appel J-P (2011) When the world’s population took off: the springboard of the Neolithic Demographic Transition. Science 333:560–561

A journal article with 2 authors

Montagner JP, Ritsema J (2001) Geology. Interactions between ridges and plumes. Science 294:1472–1473

A journal article with 3 authors

Schätz T, Schramm U, Habs D (2001) Crystalline ion beams. Nature 412:717–720

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zabow G, Dodd S, Moreland J, Koretsky A (2008) Micro-engineered local field control for high-sensitivity multispectral MRI. Nature 453:1058–1063

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quinquis A (2008) Digital Signal Processing using MATLAB®. ISTE, London, UK

An edited book

Lichtfouse E (ed) (2010) Genetic Engineering, Biofertilisation, Soil Quality and Organic Farming. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Ahmidi N, Gao Y, Béjar B, et al (2013) String Motif-Based Description of Tool Motion for Detecting Skill and Gestures in Robotic Surgery. In: Mori K, Sakuma I, Sato Y, et al. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2013: 16th International Conference, Nagoya, Japan, September 22-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 26–33

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

Fang J (2014) Peer Deeply into the Cross-Section of the Universe. In: IFLScience. 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 (2014) Education of Homeless Students: Improved Program Oversight Needed. 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

Vundavilli R (2014) Bubble Removal in Microfluidic Devices Using Nanofibrous Membranes. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Vecsey G (2012) Yankees’ Old Ways Catch Up With Them. New York Times D1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bocquet-Appel 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Montagner and Ritsema 2001; Bocquet-Appel 2011).

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

Two authors: (Montagner and Ritsema 2001)
Three or more authors: (Zabow 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