How to format your references using the Mathematical Programming citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mathematical Programming. 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

Check, E.: Fresh analyses put rice genomics on the map. Nature. 420, 259 (2002)

A journal article with 2 authors

Yu, L., Lenardo, M.J.: Immunology. The paracaspase connection. Science. 302, 1515–1516 (2003)

A journal article with 3 authors

Laporte, S.A., Oakley, R.H., Caron, M.G.: Signal transduction. Bringing channels closer to the action! Science. 293, 62–63 (2001)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Huertas, P., Cortés-Ledesma, F., Sartori, A.A., Aguilera, A., Jackson, S.P.: CDK targets Sae2 to control DNA-end resection and homologous recombination. Nature. 455, 689–692 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stenzel, J.: CIO Best Practices. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2010)

An edited book

Adney, W.S., McMillan, J.D., Mielenz, J., Klasson, K.T. eds: Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals: Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals Held April 29–May 2, 2007, in Denver, Colorado. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ (2008)

A chapter in an edited book

Sosa, M.S., Bragado, P., Debnath, J., Aguirre-Ghiso, J.A.: Regulation of Tumor Cell Dormancy by Tissue Microenvironments and Autophagy. In: Enderling, H., Almog, N., and Hlatky, L. (eds.) Systems Biology of Tumor Dormancy. pp. 73–89. Springer, New York, NY (2013)

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 Mathematical Programming.

Blog post

Evans, K.: Scientists Developed This 9-Question Test To Measure How Sadistic Someone Is, https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/scientists-developed-this-9-question-test-to-measure-how-sadistic-someone-is/

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: Social Security Downsizing: Significant Savings but Some Service Quality and Operational Problems. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1991)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yudell, M.: Making race: Biology and the evolution of the race concept in 20th century American thought, (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

Kelly, C.: The Phantom Typist Revealed, (2000)

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	Mathematical Programming
Abbreviation	Math. Program.
ISSN (print)	0025-5610
ISSN (online)	1436-4646
Scope	Software General Mathematics