How to format your references using the European Journal of Combinatorics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Combinatorics. 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]

S. Baker, Genomic medicine has failed the poor, Nature 478 (2011) 287.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. Bradford, P. O’Tierney, Three-person rule was not set by Nobel himself, Nature 411 (2001) 413.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.V. Kovalenko, M. Scheele, D.V. Talapin, Colloidal nanocrystals with molecular metal chalcogenide surface ligands, Science 324 (2009) 1417–1420.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Hess, A. Sczyrba, R. Egan, T.-W. Kim, H. Chokhawala, G. Schroth, S. Luo, D.S. Clark, F. Chen, T. Zhang, R.I. Mackie, L.A. Pennacchio, S.G. Tringe, A. Visel, T. Woyke, Z. Wang, E.M. Rubin, Metagenomic discovery of biomass-degrading genes and genomes from cow rumen, Science 331 (2011) 463–467.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M.T. Biegelman, Faces of Fraud, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

A.A. Salah, B.J.A. Kröse, D.J. Cook, eds., Human Behavior Understanding: 6th International Workshop, HBU 2015, Osaka, Japan, September 8, 2015, Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Reed, B.H. Bornstein, Using Mock Jury Studies to Measure Community Sentiment Toward Child Sexual Abusers, in: M.K. Miller, J.A. Blumenthal, J. Chamberlain (Eds.), Handbook of Community Sentiment, Springer, New York, NY, 2015: pp. 57–68.

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 European Journal of Combinatorics.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, The Speed Of Gravity Might Help Us Confirm Dark Energy, IFLScience (2017).

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, Head Start: Additional Information on Implementation of Transportation Regulations, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.M. Seyed Jalali Aghdam, Silica aerogel, an alternative to micromachined air gap for thermal insulation of microheaters, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2015.

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]

K. Crow, On Chinatown’s Basketball Courts, It’s the Year of Yao, New York Times (2003) 144.

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	European Journal of Combinatorics
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Comb.
ISSN (print)	0195-6698
Scope	Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics