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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Schoener, T.W.: The newest synthesis: understanding the interplay of evolutionary and ecological dynamics. Science. 331, 426–429 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Chatterjee, S., Grosshans, H.: Active turnover modulates mature microRNA activity in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature. 461, 546–549 (2009)

A journal article with 3 authors

Joachim, C., Gimzewski, J.K., Aviram, A.: Electronics using hybrid-molecular and mono-molecular devices. Nature. 408, 541–548 (2000)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wisotzki, L., Bacon, R., Brinchmann, J., Cantalupo, S., Richter, P., Schaye, J., Schmidt, K.B., Urrutia, T., Weilbacher, P.M., Akhlaghi, M., Bouché, N., Contini, T., Guiderdoni, B., Herenz, E.C., Inami, H., Kerutt, J., Leclercq, F., Marino, R.A., Maseda, M., Monreal-Ibero, A., Nanayakkara, T., Richard, J., Saust, R., Steinmetz, M., Wendt, M.: Author Correction: Nearly all the sky is covered by Lyman-α emission around high-redshift galaxies. Nature. (2018)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vegh, A.: Web Development with the Mac®. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA (2010)

An edited book

Childs, J.E., Mackenzie, J.S., Richt, J.A. eds: Wildlife and Emerging Zoonotic Diseases: The Biology, Circumstances and Consequences of Cross-Species Transmission. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2007)

A chapter in an edited book

Strumia, M., Ramantani, G., Mader, I., Henning, J., Bai, L., Hadjidemetriou, S.: Analysis of Structural MRI Data for the Localisation of Focal Cortical Dysplasia in Epilepsy. In: Drechsler, K., Erdt, M., Linguraru, M.G., Oyarzun Laura, C., Sharma, K., Shekhar, R., and Wesarg, S. (eds.) Clinical Image-Based Procedures. From Planning to Intervention: International Workshop, CLIP 2012, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2012, Nice, France, October 5, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. pp. 25–32. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

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

Carpineti, A.: Newly Discovered “Blast Waves” Found In The Sun’s Atmosphere, https://www.iflscience.com/space/blast-waves-discovered-sun-s-atmosphere/

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: Paul G. Dembling. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1988)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rodriguez, S.G.: Devotion to land: The Virgin Mary and the Mudejar in the post-conquest program of Alfonso X of Castile, 1252–1284, (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

Mann, J.: America’s dangerous ‘China fantasy,’ (2016)

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