How to format your references using the Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory. 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

Sagan SD (2012) Policy: a call for global nuclear disarmament. Nature 487:30–32

A journal article with 2 authors

Sung S, Amasino RM (2004) Vernalization in Arabidopsis thaliana is mediated by the PHD finger protein VIN3. Nature 427:159–164

A journal article with 3 authors

Karsai M, Perra N, Vespignani A (2014) Time varying networks and the weakness of strong ties. Sci Rep 4:4001

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chen Z-G, Ni X, Wu Y, et al (2014) Accidental degeneracy of double Dirac cones in a phononic crystal. Sci Rep 4:4613

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Graham C (2014) Markov Chains: Analytic and Monte Carlo Computations. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Uitto JI, Shaw R (eds) (2016) Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction, 1st ed. 2016. Springer Japan, Tokyo

A chapter in an edited book

O’Gorman G, Blott S (2007) Large Scale Simulation of Tor: In: Cervesato I (ed) Advances in Computer Science – ASIAN 2007. Computer and Network Security: 12th Asian Computing Science Conference, Doha, Qatar, December 9-11, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 48–54

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 Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory.

Blog post

Hale T (2015) Stunning Drone Footage Of A Paddleboarder’s Encounter With Two Whales. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/stunning-drone-footage-paddle-boarders-encounter-two-whales/. 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 (1991) Medical ADP Systems: Automated Medical Records Hold Promise to Improve Patient Care. 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

Cannon MP (2013) Cenozoic kinematics of the Little Pine fault, Santa Maria Basin, California. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Mueller B (2017) Prudence or Power Grab? Cuomo Adds Troopers to New York City. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sagan 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Sung and Amasino 2004; Sagan 2012).

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

Two authors: (Sung and Amasino 2004)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
Abbreviation	Comput. Math. Organ. Theory
ISSN (print)	1381-298X
ISSN (online)	1572-9346
Scope	General Computer Science General Decision Sciences Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics Modelling and Simulation