How to format your references using the Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras. 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

Weinberg, R.: Point: Hypotheses first. Nature. 464, 678 (2010)

A journal article with 2 authors

Sieberer, T., Leyser, O.: Plant science. Auxin transport, but in which direction? Science. 312, 858–860 (2006)

A journal article with 3 authors

Mlynarski, S.N., Schuster, C.H., Morken, J.P.: Asymmetric synthesis from terminal alkenes by cascades of diboration and cross-coupling. Nature. 505, 386–390 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Behrens, M.M., Ali, S.S., Dao, D.N., Lucero, J., Shekhtman, G., Quick, K.L., Dugan, L.L.: Ketamine-induced loss of phenotype of fast-spiking interneurons is mediated by NADPH-oxidase. Science. 318, 1645–1647 (2007)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Qiu, X., Ding, C., Hu, D.: Bistatic SAR Data Processing Algorithms. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd., Solaris South Tower, Singapore (2013)

An edited book

Wang, Z.: Simultaneous Multi-Pollutants Removal in Flue Gas by Ozone. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Hirano, T., van der Kolk, N., Bilandzic, A.: Hydrodynamics and Flow. In: Sarkar, S., Satz, H., and Sinha, B. (eds.) The Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma: Introductory Lectures. pp. 139–178. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2010)

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 Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Early Humans Had Gender Equal Societies, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/early-humans-had-gender-equal-societies/

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: Transportation Issue Area Plan: Fiscal Years 1998-2000--1999 Update. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1998)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bell, K.D.: Fatherhood connected: A curriculum development project for adolescent fathers in the juvenile justice system, (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

Vlasic, B., Chapman, M.M.: U.A.W. Is Said to Flatly Reject Fiat Chrysler Contract Offer, (2015)

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	Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras
Abbreviation	Adv. Appl. Clifford Algebras
ISSN (print)	0188-7009
ISSN (online)	1661-4909
Scope	Applied Mathematics