References and citation style

Last updated

• 8 January 2016 — Original version.

Guidelines

There is no standard style for references and citations in the operations research literature. For this course, use this "typical" style described below.

List of references

• References should be listed in alphabetical order at the end of your report.
• The list of references should be under a section heading called "References".
• Do not include references that you do not cite in your report, even if you have read them.
• Describe each reference using one of the following formats, depending on the type of reference. Mouse over the different parts of the entries for details.
• Journal articles

  Y. Linde, A. Buzo and R.M. Gray. An algorithm for vector quantizer design. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 28(1):84-95, 1980.

• Papers in a bound collection, such as conference proceedings

  M. Fanty, P. Schmid, and R. Cole. City name recognition over the telephone. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, volume 1, pages 549-552, Minneapolis, U.S.A., 1993.

• Technical reports

  J. B. Smith. High resolution schemes. Technical report 92-00, Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering, 2002.

• Books, and pamphlets

  H. Abut, editor. Vector Quantization. IEEE Press, 1990.

• If you need to list a reference that does not fall into one of the above categories, ask me how to list it.

Citing references

• Cite references by using the authors' last names and year of publication. For example:

  Linde et al. (1980) proved rate of convergence results for this type of algorithm.

  This type of integer programming formulation has been studied before (Abut 1990).

• Although not usually necessary, you can refer to a specific page or result, if you wish. For example:

  A similar theorem has been proved previously (Fanty et al. 1993, Theorem 5.2).

  It has been conjectured that this type of mathematical programming formulation can be solved efficiently (Smith 2002, p. 23).