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

Smaglik, P.: Tissue donors use their influence in deal over gene patent terms. Nature. 407, 821 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Hayashi, T., Carthew, R.W.: Surface mechanics mediate pattern formation in the developing retina. Nature. 431, 647–652 (2004)

A journal article with 3 authors

Hopkins, M., Harrison, T.M., Manning, C.E.: Low heat flow inferred from >4 Gyr zircons suggests Hadean plate boundary interactions. Nature. 456, 493–496 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Naveilhan, P., Hassani, H., Lucas, G., Blakeman, K.H., Hao, J.X., Xu, X.J., Wiesenfeld-Hallin, Z., Thorén, P., Ernfors, P.: Reduced antinociception and plasma extravasation in mice lacking a neuropeptide Y receptor. Nature. 409, 513–517 (2001)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Spence, R.: Introductory Circuits. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex (2008)

An edited book

Malone, T.: Adapting War Horse: Cognition, the Spectator, and a Sense of Play. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Hankela, E.: “It’s Only the Glass Door, Which Breaks Every Day.” Layered Politics of (Dis)Order at the Central Methodist Mission. In: Wilhelm-Solomon, M., Núñez, L., Kankonde Bukasa, P., and Malcomess, B. (eds.) Routes and Rites to the City: Mobility, Diversity and Religious Space in Johannesburg. pp. 91–115. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London (2016)

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

Carpineti, A.: DNA Could Be Used As Nanowire

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: Advance Sheets: Volume 74, Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States. 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

Kilpatrick, R.F.: A World Less Paved, (2010)

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.: Paterno at the End: Far From the Coach We Thought We Knew, (2011)

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