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

Skinner L (2012) Climate change. A long view on climate sensitivity. Science 337:917–919

A journal article with 2 authors

Chisholm JR, Kelley R (2001) Worms start the reef-building process. Nature 409:152

A journal article with 3 authors

Jing J, Bishop CA, Wu L-A (2014) Nonperturbative dynamical decoupling with random control. Sci Rep 4:6229

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Garrison JL, Kunkel EJ, Hegde RS, Taunton J (2005) A substrate-specific inhibitor of protein translocation into the endoplasmic reticulum. Nature 436:285–289

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chitrapu P (2005) Wideband TDD. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Witrant E, Fridman E, Sename O, Dugard L (eds) (2016) Recent Results on Time-Delay Systems: Analysis and Control, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Ceballos HG, Flores-Solorio V, Garcia JP (2015) A Probabilistic BPMN Normal Form to Model and Advise Human Activities. In: Baldoni M, Baresi L, Dastani M (eds) Engineering Multi-Agent Systems: Third International Workshop, EMAS 2015, Istanbul, Turkey, May 5, 2015, Revised, Selected, and Invited Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 51–69

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 (2015) FDA Approves First 3D-Printed Drug. 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 (2009) Next Generation Air Transportation System: Status of Transformation and Issues Associated with Midterm Implementation of Capabilities. 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

Bailey CN (2015) The influence of gardens on resilience in older adults living in a continuing care community. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic 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) It Was a Magical Night, With a Cherry on Top. New York Times SP2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Skinner 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Chisholm and Kelley 2001; Skinner 2012).

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

Two authors: (Chisholm and Kelley 2001)
Three or more authors: (Garrison et al. 2005)

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