How to format your references using the Mathematical Programming citation style

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

Kleiner, K.: The shipping forecast. Nature. 449, 272–273 (2007)

A journal article with 2 authors

Maloy, K.J., Powrie, F.: Intestinal homeostasis and its breakdown in inflammatory bowel disease. Nature. 474, 298–306 (2011)

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, J., Sheng, L., Liu, J.: Synthetically chemical-electrical mechanism for controlling large scale reversible deformation of liquid metal objects. Sci. Rep. 4, 7116 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Da Mesquita, S., Louveau, A., Vaccari, A., Smirnov, I., Cornelison, R.C., Kingsmore, K.M., Contarino, C., Onengut-Gumuscu, S., Farber, E., Raper, D., Viar, K.E., Powell, R.D., Baker, W., Dabhi, N., Bai, R., Cao, R., Hu, S., Rich, S.S., Munson, J.M., Lopes, M.B., Overall, C.C., Acton, S.T., Kipnis, J.: Functional aspects of meningeal lymphatics in ageing and Alzheimer’s disease. Nature. 560, 185–191 (2018)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chu, P.P.: Embedded SoPC Design with Nios II Processor and VHDL Examples. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2011)

An edited book

Allen, R.B., Hunter, J., Zeng, M.L. eds: Digital Libraries: Providing Quality Information: 17th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2015, Seoul, Korea, December 9-12, 2015. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Vogler, R.: Transnational Inquiries and the Protection of Human Rights in the Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights. In: Ruggeri, S. (ed.) Transnational Inquiries and the Protection of Fundamental Rights in Criminal Proceedings: A Study in Memory of Vittorio Grevi and Giovanni Tranchina. pp. 27–40. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

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 Programming.

Blog post

Andrews, R.: Brand New T. Rex Fossil Is One Of The “Most Significant Specimens” Ever Found, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/brand-new-trex-fossil-significant-specimens-ever-found/

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: Student Financial Aid: Data Not Fully Utilized to Identify Inappropriately Awarded Loans and Grants. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1995)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gilbert, S.A.: Succession Planning Relating to the Millennial Generation in Private Four-Year Universities, (2017)

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.: In Cleveland’s Revival, They Were Champions First, (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	Mathematical Programming
Abbreviation	Math. Program.
ISSN (print)	0025-5610
ISSN (online)	1436-4646
Scope	Software General Mathematics