How to format your references using the EURO Journal on Computational Optimization citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for EURO Journal on Computational Optimization. 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

Running SW (2008) Climate change. Ecosystem disturbance, carbon, and climate. Science 321:652–653

A journal article with 2 authors

Hawthorne DJ, Via S (2001) Genetic linkage of ecological specialization and reproductive isolation in pea aphids. Nature 412:904–907

A journal article with 3 authors

Cheung VG, Sherman SL, Feingold E (2010) Genetics. Genetic control of hotspots. Science 327:791–792

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Campillos M, Kuhn M, Gavin A-C, et al (2008) Drug target identification using side-effect similarity. Science 321:263–266

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zarbock G, Lynch S, Ammann A, Ringer S (2014) Mindfulness for Therapists. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Guia MJ (ed) (2015) The Illegal Business of Human Trafficking. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Erduran S, Dagher ZR (2014) Methods and Methodological Rules. In: Dagher ZR (ed) Reconceptualizing the Nature of Science for Science Education: Scientific Knowledge, Practices and Other Family Categories. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 91–112

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 EURO Journal on Computational Optimization.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) Over 95% Of The World’s Population Suffer From Health Problems. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/over-95-worlds-population-suffer-health-problems/. 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 (2015) Aviation Security: TSA Has Taken Steps to Improve Oversight of Key Programs, but Additional Actions Are Needed. 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

Peterson GG (2013) Long-Term Effects of Care Management on Mortality, Hospitalizations, and Medicare Costs Among Chronically-Ill Medicare Beneficiaries. 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

Turkewitz J (2014) Language Barrier Continues to Thwart Victims of Crimes. New York Times A14

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Running 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Hawthorne and Via 2001; Running 2008).

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

Two authors: (Hawthorne and Via 2001)
Three or more authors: (Campillos et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	EURO Journal on Computational Optimization
ISSN (print)	2192-4406
ISSN (online)	2192-4414
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