How to format your references using the Central European Journal of Operations Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Central European Journal of Operations Research. 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

Adam D (2001) Plans for GM livestock fail the poor. Nature 411:403

A journal article with 2 authors

Karels TJ, Boonstra R (2000) Concurrent density dependence and independence in populations of arctic ground squirrels. Nature 408:460–463

A journal article with 3 authors

Hawks J, de Ruiter DJ, Berger LR (2015) PALEOANTHROPOLOGY. Comment on “Early Homo at 2.8 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Afar, Ethiopia.” Science 348:1326

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Laursen NS, Friesen RHE, Zhu X, et al (2018) Universal protection against influenza infection by a multidomain antibody to influenza hemagglutinin. Science 362:598–602

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Christophers B (2013) Banking Across Boundaries. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford

An edited book

Köhn D (ed) (2014) Finance for Food: Towards New Agricultural and Rural Finance. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Mazurett-Boyle R (2016) Researching Our Way. In: Kitchen J, Tidwell D, Fitzgerald L (eds) Self-Study and Diversity II: Inclusive Teacher Education for a Diverse World. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp 55–77

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 Central European Journal of Operations Research.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) A Map Of The Loneliest Places On Earth. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/map-loneliest-places-earth/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1976) New Computer Was Not Needed for the St. Louis Computer Center. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lee J (2012) The Effects of Leadership Behavior on Workplace Harassment, Employee Outcomes, and Organizational Effectiveness in Small Businesses. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Park LS (2015) Look on the Bright Side. New York Times BR18

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Adam 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Karels and Boonstra 2000; Adam 2001).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Karels and Boonstra 2000)
Three or more authors: (Laursen et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Central European Journal of Operations Research
Abbreviation	Cent. Eur. J. Oper. Res.
ISSN (print)	1435-246X
ISSN (online)	1613-9178
Scope	Management Science and Operations Research