Optimization Referencing Guide
(updated Apr 2024)


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How to do citations in Optimization style?

This is the Citationsy guide to Optimization citations, reference lists, in-text citations, and bibliographies.
The complete, comprehensive guide shows you how easy citing any source can be. Referencing books, youtube videos, websites, articles, journals, podcasts, images, videos, or music in Optimization.

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How do you cite a book in the Optimization referencing style? (2024 Guide)

Have you come across fiction, non-fiction, history, novel or any other book and you want to include it in your works-cited-list in Optimization? This is how.

Here’s an example book citation in Optimization using placeholders:
[1]
Last Name FN. Title. Edition. Editor Last Name EFN, editor. City: Publisher; 2000.
So if we want to cite, for example, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou we’d do so like this:
Optimization citation:
[1]
Angelou M. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. 1st ed. New York: Random House; 1969.
And an in-text citation book citation in Optimization looks like this: [1]


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How to reference a journal article in the Optimization citation style?

How do you cite scientific papers in Optimization format?

To write a research paper, you need to incorporate sources. This means that you have to know how to format the sources in your academic paper. To cite someone else’s paper in Optimization in your research, follow these simple steps.

Here’s a Optimization journal citation example using placeholders:
[1]
Author1 LastnameAF, Author3 LastnameAF. Title. Container [Internet]. 2000 [cited 2024Apr.19];Volume:pages Used. URL.
So if we want to reference this scientific article: “Testing consumer preferences for iced-coffee: Does the drinking environment have any influence?” by C. Petit and J.M. Sieffermann in Optimization: