How to format your references using the Mathematical Programming Computation citation style

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

Sydnes, L.K.: Policy: Update the Chemical Weapons Convention. Nature. 496, 25–26 (2013)

A journal article with 2 authors

Woodside, M.T., McEuen, P.L.: Scanned probe imaging of single-electron charge states in nanotube quantum dots. Science. 296, 1098–1101 (2002)

A journal article with 3 authors

Haitin, Y., Carlson, A.E., Zagotta, W.N.: The structural mechanism of KCNH-channel regulation by the eag domain. Nature. 501, 444–448 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gelhaus, H.C., Anderson, M.S., Fisher, D.A., Flavin, M.T., Xu, Z.-Q., Sanford, D.C.: Efficacy of post exposure administration of doxycycline in a murine model of inhalational melioidosis. Sci. Rep. 3, 1146 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Geier, R., Angelmaier, V., Graubner, C.-A., Kohoutek, J.: Integrale Brücken. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany (2017)

An edited book

Potop-Butucaru, D.: Compiling Esterel. Springer US, Boston, MA (2007)

A chapter in an edited book

Cagle, P.T., Allen, T.C.: Uncommon Nonneoplastic Lesions of the Pleura. In: Allen, T.C. (ed.) Frozen Section Library: Pleura. pp. 75–78. Springer US, Boston, MA (2010)

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 Computation.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Study Reveals The Impact Of The Fukushima Catastrophe On Plants And Animals, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/study-reveals-impact-fukushima-catastrophe-plants-and-animals/

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: Medical Records Privacy: Uses and Oversight of Patient Information in Research. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1999)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cruz, A.A.: Concordance between therapists’ self -reports and observers’ ratings of adherence to marital therapy, (2009)

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

Branch, J.: A Coming-Home Party 40 Years in the Making, (2015)

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 Computation
Abbreviation	Math. Program. Comput.
ISSN (print)	1867-2949
ISSN (online)	1867-2957
Scope	Software Theoretical Computer Science