How to format your references using the Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A. 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]

H. Alter, Baruch Blumberg (1925-2011), Nature 473 (2011) 155.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N. Fujii, A.M. Graybiel, Representation of action sequence boundaries by macaque prefrontal cortical neurons, Science 301 (2003) 1246–1249.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L.M. Mehlmann, T.L.Z. Jones, L.A. Jaffe, Meiotic arrest in the mouse follicle maintained by a Gs protein in the oocyte, Science 297 (2002) 1343–1345.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Ghorbani-Asl, N. Zibouche, M. Wahiduzzaman, A.F. Oliveira, A. Kuc, T. Heine, Electromechanics in MoS₂ and WS₂: nanotubes vs. monolayers, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2961.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Tobias, D. Hochhauser, Cancer and its Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

A. Bhansali, Clinical Rounds in Endocrinology: Volume I - Adult Endocrinology, Springer India, New Delhi, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G.M. Hulbert, Z.-D. Ma, J. Wang, Gluing for Dynamic Simulation of Distributed Mechanical Systems, in: J.A.C. Ambrósio (Ed.), Advances in Computational Multibody Systems, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2005: pp. 69–94.

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 Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A.

Blog post

[1]

K. Evans, “Irrefutable” Proof That Neanderthals Were Cannibals, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/irrefutable-proof-that-neanderthals-were-cannibals/ (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, Mass Transit: Challenges in Securing Transit Systems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.W. Horn, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics of Accusative-Quotative Constructions in Japanese, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2008.

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]

S.K. (nyt), World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Officers Cleared Of Chechen Deaths, New York Times (2005) A11.

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	Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A
Abbreviation	J. Comb. Theory Ser. A.
ISSN (print)	0097-3165
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics Theoretical Computer Science