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

Fisman, R.: Health care policy. Straining emergency rooms by expanding health insurance. Science. 343, 252–253 (2014)

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith, M.R., Caron, J.-B.: Hallucigenia’s head and the pharyngeal armature of early ecdysozoans. Nature. 523, 75–78 (2015)

A journal article with 3 authors

Yu, Y.-T.N., Yuan, X., Velicer, G.J.: Adaptive evolution of an sRNA that controls Myxococcus development. Science. 328, 993 (2010)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Strogatz, S.H., Abrams, D.M., McRobie, A., Eckhardt, B., Ott, E.: Theoretical mechanics: crowd synchrony on the Millennium Bridge. Nature. 438, 43–44 (2005)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kompare, D.: CSI. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK (2010)

An edited book

Simonis, H. ed: Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming: 11th International Conference, CPAIOR 2014, Cork, Ireland, May 19-23, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Laurence, V., Rousset-Jablonski, C.: Contraception and Cancer Treatment in Young Persons. In: Quinn, G.P. and Vadaparampil, S.T. (eds.) Reproductive Health and Cancer in Adolescents and Young Adults. pp. 41–60. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2012)

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, D.: How Tiny Black Spots Shed Light On Part Of The Homo Naledi Mystery, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-tiny-black-spots-shed-light-on-part-of-the-homo-naledi-mystery/

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: Customs Service Modernization: Strategic Information Management Must Be Improved for National Automation Program to Succeed. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1996)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Schutt, R.: Topics in model-based population inference, (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

Hubbard, B.: Two Blasts Kill Dozens Near Shrines in Damascus, (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	Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras
Abbreviation	Adv. Appl. Clifford Algebras
ISSN (print)	0188-7009
ISSN (online)	1661-4909
Scope	Applied Mathematics