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

Shelly, D.R.: Periodic, chaotic, and doubled earthquake recurrence intervals on the deep San Andreas fault. Science. 328, 1385–1388 (2010)

A journal article with 2 authors

Möller, K., Bein, T.: Chemistry. Pores within pores--how to craft ordered hierarchical zeolites. Science. 333, 297–298 (2011)

A journal article with 3 authors

Gao, F., Ding, Z., Meng, S.: Three-dimensional metal-intercalated covalent organic frameworks for near-ambient energy storage. Sci. Rep. 3, 1882 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Unlu, M., Hashemi, M.R., Berry, C.W., Li, S., Yang, S.-H., Jarrahi, M.: Switchable scattering meta-surfaces for broadband terahertz modulation. Sci. Rep. 4, 5708 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Southard, T.E., Marshall, S.D., Bonner, L.L.: Orthodontics in the Vertical Dimension. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ (2015)

An edited book

Goldberg, I., Atallah, M.J. eds: Privacy Enhancing Technologies: 9th International Symposium, PETS 2009, Seattle, WA, USA, August 5-7, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009)

A chapter in an edited book

Andersson, D., Gurvich, V., Hansen, T.D.: On Acyclicity of Games with Cycles. In: Goldberg, A.V. and Zhou, Y. (eds.) Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management: 5th International Conference, AAIM 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA, June 15-17, 2009. Proceedings. pp. 15–28. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009)

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.: Watch Hundreds Of Gnat Larvae Slither Together Like A Snake, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-hundreds-gnat-larvae-slither-together-snake/

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: Information Technology: Management Improvements Needed on the Department of Homeland Security’s Next Generation Information Sharing System. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2008)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tomko, P.R.: Understanding the factors affecting the influence of children on their parents’ total purchases, (2012)

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

Oestreich, J.R.: Lamenting Dead Kings, Spending Sunday at the Pub, (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