How to format your references using the Order citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Order. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Jacobs, M.: Climate policy: Deadline 2015. Nature. 481, 137–138 (2012)

A journal article with 2 authors

Nix, P., Bastiani, M.: Neuroscience. Heterochronic genes turn back the clock in old neurons. Science. 340, 282–283 (2013)

A journal article with 3 authors

Zaks, B., Liu, R.B., Sherwin, M.S.: Experimental observation of electron-hole recollisions. Nature. 483, 580–583 (2012)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schaub, R., Wahlström, E., Rønnau, A., Lagsgaard, E., Stensgaard, I., Besenbacher, F.: Oxygen-mediated diffusion of oxygen vacancies on the TiO2(110) surface. Science. 299, 377–379 (2003)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mastro, P.F.: Plastics Product Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2016)

An edited book

Antonijevic, Z. ed: Optimization of Pharmaceutical R&D Programs and Portfolios: Design and Investment Strategy. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Lawson, T.: Emergence and Morphogenesis: Causal Reduction and Downward Causation? In: Archer, M.S. (ed.) Social Morphogenesis. pp. 61–84. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (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 Order.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Scientists Create Functioning Whole Organ From Cells, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-create-functioning-whole-organ-cells/

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: Public Transportation: Opportunities Exist to Improve the Communication and Transparency of Changes Made to the New Starts Program. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2005)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Brigida, M.D.: Target stock price runup prior to acquisitions, (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

Schilling, M.K.: Fine Dining Is Toast, (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	Order
Abbreviation	Order
ISSN (print)	0167-8094
ISSN (online)	1572-9273
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Algebra and Number Theory Geometry and Topology