How to format your references using the Acta Applicandae Mathematicae citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Applicandae Mathematicae. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Paulsson, J.: Summing up the noise in gene networks. Nature. 427, 415–418 (2004)

A journal article with 2 authors

Rybczynski, N., Reisz, R.R.: Earliest evidence for efficient oral processing in a terrestrial herbivore. Nature. 411, 684–687 (2001)

A journal article with 3 authors

Galloway, K.E., Franco, E., Smolke, C.D.: Dynamically reshaping signaling networks to program cell fate via genetic controllers. Science. 341, 1235005 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vinci, W., Markström, K., Boixo, S., Roy, A., Spedalieri, F.M., Warburton, P.A., Severini, S.: Hearing the shape of the Ising model with a programmable superconducting-flux annealer. Sci. Rep. 4, 5703 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saksena, F.B.: Patient Studies in Valvular, Congenital, and Rarer Forms of Cardiovascular Disease. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2015)

An edited book

Wieringa, R., Persson, A. eds: Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality: 16th International Working Conference, REFSQ 2010, Essen, Germany, June 30–July 2, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2010)

A chapter in an edited book

Hermanussen, M.: Growth in Childhood and Puberty. In: Kumanov, P. and Agarwal, A. (eds.) Puberty: Physiology and Abnormalities. pp. 65–76. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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 Acta Applicandae Mathematicae.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J.: Incredibly Rare Double Eclipse Of The Sun By Earth And The Moon Snapped By Spacecraft, https://www.iflscience.com/space/incredible-double-eclipse-sun-earth-and-moon-captured-first-time-ever/

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: Railroad Safety: FRA Needs to Correct Deficiencies in Reporting Injuries and Accidents. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1989)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lavoie, D.: Ecotone, (2010)

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

Qiu, L.: Pre-Existing Conditions: There’s Truth-Stretching From Both Sides, (2017)

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	Acta Applicandae Mathematicae
Abbreviation	Acta Appl. Math.
ISSN (print)	0167-8019
ISSN (online)	1572-9036
Scope	Applied Mathematics