How to format your references using the Discrete Mathematics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Discrete Mathematics. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

P. Wickware, Progress from a fragile start, Nature 403 (2000) 466.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.B. Huey, W.J. Moody, Neuroscience and evolution. Snake sodium channels resist TTX arrest, Science 297 (2002) 1289–1290.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P. Foukal, G. North, T. Wigley, Climate. A stellar view on solar variations and climate, Science 306 (2004) 68–69.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Massey, L.A. Yeager, C.A. Blumentritt, S. Vijayakumar, E. Sbrana, J.W. Peterson, T. Brasel, J.W. LeDuc, J.J. Endsley, A.G. Torres, Comparative Burkholderia pseudomallei natural history virulence studies using an aerosol murine model of infection, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4305.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S.L. Horstmeyer, The Weather Almanac, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

V. Marinca, The Optimal Homotopy Asymptotic Method: Engineering Applications, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E.A. Pestana, S. Belak, A. Diallo, J.R. Crowther, G.J. Viljoen, Disease Diagnosis Using Real-Time PCR Specific Procedures for Important Veterinary Pathogens, in: S. Belak, A. Diallo, J.R. Crowther, G.J. Viljoen (Eds.), Early, Rapid and Sensitive Veterinary Molecular Diagnostics - Real Time PCR Applications, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2010: pp. 73–234.

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 Discrete Mathematics.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Two-Headed Snake Discovered in Turkey, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/two-headed-snake-discovered-turkey/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Contracts Awarded to Aero Spacelines, Inc., for Airlift Outsized Cargo, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.C. Metcalfe, Using Evolution as a Context for Teaching the Nature of Science to Diverse Student Populations: A High School Unit of Curriculum, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

M. Kelly, THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Clinton, in South Carolina, Shows He Is a Threat in the South, New York Times (1992) 130.

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	Discrete Mathematics
Abbreviation	Discrete Math.
ISSN (print)	0012-365X
Scope	Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics Theoretical Computer Science