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

Brown KR (2014) Physics Probing the electron. Science 343:255–256

A journal article with 2 authors

Furukawa A, Tanaka H (2006) Violation of the incompressibility of liquid by simple shear flow. Nature 443:434–438

A journal article with 3 authors

Watanabe Y, Farquhar J, Ohmoto H (2009) Anomalous fractionations of sulfur isotopes during thermochemical sulfate reduction. Science 324:370–373

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Singer PA, Berndtson K, Tracy CS, et al (2007) A tough transition. Nature 449:160–163

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McCrary SA (2010) Mastering Corporate Finance Essentials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ebbinghaus HD (2015) Ernst Zermelo: An Approach to His Life and Work, 2nd ed. 2015. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Tam AL (2011) Mediastinal Biopsy. In: Gervais DA, Sabharwal T (eds) Interventional Radiology Procedures in Biopsy and Drainage. Springer, London, pp 31–45

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

Davis J (2016) It Now Looks Certain That 2016 Will Be The Hottest Year On Record. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/it-now-looks-certain-that-2016-will-be-the-hottest-year-on-record/. 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 (1997) Student Loans: Default Rates at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. 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

Youngbull NR (2017) The (Un)Success of American Indian Gates Millennium Scholars Within Institutions of Higher Education. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Kenigsberg B (2017) Film Series. New York Times C15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brown 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Furukawa and Tanaka 2006; Brown 2014).

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

Two authors: (Furukawa and Tanaka 2006)
Three or more authors: (Singer et al. 2007)

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