How to format your references using the Journal of Experimental Algorithmics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Experimental Algorithmics (JEA). 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]

Pieter R. Roelfsema. 2002. Do neurons predict the future? Science 295, 5553 (January 2002), 227.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Haitao Liu and Philippe Lalanne. 2008. Microscopic theory of the extraordinary optical transmission. Nature 452, 7188 (April 2008), 728–731.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hyery Kang, Dong-Yeun Koh, and Huen Lee. 2014. Nondestructive natural gas hydrate recovery driven by air and carbon dioxide. Sci. Rep. 4, (October 2014), 6616.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Dmitriy A. Dikin, Sasha Stankovich, Eric J. Zimney, Richard D. Piner, Geoffrey H. B. Dommett, Guennadi Evmenenko, Sonbinh T. Nguyen, and Rodney S. Ruoff. 2007. Preparation and characterization of graphene oxide paper. Nature 448, 7152 (July 2007), 457–460.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Christina Lane. 2011. Magnolia. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

[1]

De-Shuang Huang, Kang-Hyun Jo, and Abir Hussain (Eds.). 2015. Intelligent Computing Theories and Methodologies: 11th International Conference, ICIC 2015, Fuzhou, China, August 20-23, 2015, Proceedings, Part II (1st ed. 2015 ed.). Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Reza Abbasian and Malek Mouhoub. 2013. A New Crossover for Solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems. In Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization: 13th European Conference, EvoCOP 2013, Vienna, Austria, April 3-5, 2013. Proceedings, Martin Middendorf and Christian Blum (eds.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 37–48.

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 Experimental Algorithmics.

Blog post

[1]

Elise Andrew. 2014. New Record-Breaking Laser Could Dramatically Speed Up The Internet. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/physics/new-record-breaking-laser-could-dramatically-speed-internet/

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. 1994. D.C. Court Orders. 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

[1]

Kelley Brawley. 2010. A nutrition and physical activity curriculum for pregnant women. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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]

Kelly Dinardo. 2014. Kevin Carr Will Stop Running When He Circles the World. New York Times, TR3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [3, 4].
This sentence cites four references [5–8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Experimental Algorithmics
Abbreviation	J. Exp. Algorithmics
ISSN (online)	1084-6654
Scope	Theoretical Computer Science