How to format your references using the Advances in Computational Mathematics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Computational Mathematics. 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

Freeman, B.: Not all membrane pores are made equal; some are more equal than others. Nature. 454, 671 (2008)

A journal article with 2 authors

Svetlizky, I., Fineberg, J.: Classical shear cracks drive the onset of dry frictional motion. Nature. 509, 205–208 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Bacles, C.F.E., Lowe, A.J., Ennos, R.A.: Effective seed dispersal across a fragmented landscape. Science. 311, 628 (2006)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, L., Thomas, R.M., Suzuki, H., De Brabander, J.K., Wang, X., Harran, P.G.: A small molecule Smac mimic potentiates TRAIL- and TNFalpha-mediated cell death. Science. 305, 1471–1474 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Delgrossi, L., Zhang, T.: Vehicle Safety Communications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2012)

An edited book

Rotkin, S.V., Subramoney, S. eds: Applied Physics of Carbon Nanotubes: Fundamentals of Theory, Optics and Transport Devices. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2005)

A chapter in an edited book

Abul-Soad, A.A., Mahdi, S.M., Markhand, G.S.: Date Palm Status and Perspective in Pakistan. In: Al-Khayri, J.M., Jain, S.M., and Johnson, D.V. (eds.) Date Palm Genetic Resources and Utilization: Volume 2: Asia and Europe. pp. 153–205. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2015)

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 Computational Mathematics.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J.: Bill Gates Leads Team Of Billionaires To Fund Companies Tackling Climate Change, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/bill-gates-leads-team-of-billionaires-to-fund-companies-tackling-climate-change/

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: U.S. Agencies Could Benefit by Better Management of ADP Activities of Government Contractors. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1973)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Khojandi, N.: Investigating Secondary Infections and their Impact on Host Fitness in the Dictyostelium-Burkholderia Symbiosis System, (2017)

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

Kolomatsky, M.: June’s Most Popular Properties, (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 Computational Mathematics
Abbreviation	Adv. Comput. Math.
ISSN (print)	1019-7168
ISSN (online)	1572-9044
Scope	Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics