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

Radda, G.: Science in Europe. Biomedical research and international collaboration. Science. 295, 445–446 (2002)

A journal article with 2 authors

Lowry, A.R., Pérez-Gussinyé, M.: The role of crustal quartz in controlling Cordilleran deformation. Nature. 471, 353–357 (2011)

A journal article with 3 authors

Shah, A.K., Mullainathan, S., Shafir, E.: Some consequences of having too little. Science. 338, 682–685 (2012)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nagalakshmi, U., Wang, Z., Waern, K., Shou, C., Raha, D., Gerstein, M., Snyder, M.: The transcriptional landscape of the yeast genome defined by RNA sequencing. Science. 320, 1344–1349 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sturges, R.H., Jr: Practical Field Robotics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2014)

An edited book

Carroll, J., Daly, S. eds: Fracture, Fatigue, Failure, and Damage Evolution, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Napoli, G., Giuffrida, S., Trovato, M.R.: Fair Planning and Affordability Housing in Urban Policy. The Case of Syracuse (Italy). In: Gervasi, O., Murgante, B., Misra, S., Rocha, A.M.A.C., Torre, C.M., Taniar, D., Apduhan, B.O., Stankova, E., and Wang, S. (eds.) Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2016: 16th International Conference, Beijing, China, July 4-7, 2016, Proceedings, Part IV. pp. 46–62. 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

Andrew, E.: Video: The Amazing Rosetta Spacecraft and Philae Lander, https://www.iflscience.com/space/video-amazing-rosetta-spacecraft-and-philae-lander/

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: Vulnerabilities in the Stafford Student Loan Program. 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

Ferris, R.J.: Numerical investigations of flow past a partially rotating stepped cylinder, (2014)

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

Vecsey, G.: Ryan Tries to Flatten A Persistent Opponent, (2010)

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