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

Ray, T.: Astronomy. Cosmic rays from cosmic birth. Science. 330, 1184–1185 (2010)

A journal article with 2 authors

Lankau, R.A., Strauss, S.Y.: Mutual feedbacks maintain both genetic and species diversity in a plant community. Science. 317, 1561–1563 (2007)

A journal article with 3 authors

Murphy, R.A., Mondragón, E., Murphy, V.A.: Rule learning by rats. Science. 319, 1849–1851 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hansen, S.G., Ford, J.C., Lewis, M.S., Ventura, A.B., Hughes, C.M., Coyne-Johnson, L., Whizin, N., Oswald, K., Shoemaker, R., Swanson, T., Legasse, A.W., Chiuchiolo, M.J., Parks, C.L., Axthelm, M.K., Nelson, J.A., Jarvis, M.A., Piatak, M., Jr, Lifson, J.D., Picker, L.J.: Profound early control of highly pathogenic SIV by an effector memory T-cell vaccine. Nature. 473, 523–527 (2011)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heuer, A.: Der perfekte Tipp. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany (2012)

An edited book

Wang, J., Xiong, H., Ishikawa, Y., Xu, J., Zhou, J. eds: Web-Age Information Management: 14th International Conference, WAIM 2013, Beidaihe, China, June 14-16, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Munoz, R.T., Fox, M.D.: Legal Aspects of Brain Death and Organ Donorship. In: Novitzky, D. and Cooper, D.K.C. (eds.) The Brain-Dead Organ Donor: Pathophysiology and Management. pp. 21–35. Springer, New York, NY (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 Advances in Computational Mathematics.

Blog post

Hale, T.: The Voyager Golden Record Is Being Re-Issued, https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-voyager-golden-record-is-being-reissued-/

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: Reagan National Airport: Limited Opportunities to Improve Airlines’ Compliance with Noise Abatement Procedures. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2000)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Regmi, K.: Computer Vision and Image Processing Toolbox for MATLAB, (2015)

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

Davey, M.: Limits on Unions Pass in Michigan, Once a Mainstay, (2012)

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

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