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

McKinney, J.D.: Technology: Photonics illuminates the future of radar. Nature. 507, 310–311 (2014)

A journal article with 2 authors

Quist, D., Chapela, I.H.: Transgenic DNA introgressed into traditional maize landraces in Oaxaca, Mexico. Nature. 414, 541–543 (2001)

A journal article with 3 authors

Gu, C., Jan, Y.N., Jan, L.Y.: A conserved domain in axonal targeting of Kv1 (Shaker) voltage-gated potassium channels. Science. 301, 646–649 (2003)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kuehnbaum, N.L., Gillen, J.B., Gibala, M.J., Britz-McKibbin, P.: Personalized metabolomics for predicting glucose tolerance changes in sedentary women after high-intensity interval training. Sci. Rep. 4, 6166 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mansour, M., Wilhite, R., Rowe, J.: Guide to Ruminant Anatomy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2017)

An edited book

Wen, K., Zhu, E. eds: Report on Development of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province (2013): Measurement of Carrying Capacity and Countermeasures. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Pei, C., Zheng, W.: The Fiscal/Taxation/Financial Subsystem. In: Zheng, W. (ed.) China’s Outbound Foreign Direct Investment Promotion System. pp. 105–120. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2015)

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

Hale, T.: A 30-Tonne Meteorite Has Been Discovered In Argentina, https://www.iflscience.com/space/a-30tonne-meteorite-has-been-discovered-in-argentina/

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: Amtrak: Contracting Improprieties by Chief Engineer. 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

Tuschall, A.: Exploration of the Relationship Between Implicit Theory of Intelligence and Employability, (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

Barron, J.: Its Star Aglow Again, Madison Square Park Is Ready for Memorial Day, (2017)

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