How to format your references using the AIMS Mathematics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AIMS 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

Rutishauser U (2014) Gerald Edelman (1929-2014). Nature 510: 474.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rella SF, Uchida M (2014) A Southern Ocean trigger for Northwest Pacific ventilation during the Holocene? Sci Rep 4: 4046.

A journal article with 3 authors

Risk JM, Macknight RC, Day CL (2008) FCA does not bind abscisic acid. Nature 456: E5-6.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang D, Wei D, Li Q, et al. (2014) High performance catalytic distillation using CNTs-based holistic catalyst for production of high quality biodiesel. Sci Rep 4: 4021.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Svensson H (2011) Schrägkabelbrücken, Weinheim, Germany, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Lai CG, Wilmański K (Eds.) (2005) Surface Waves in Geomechanics: Direct and Inverse Modelling for Soils and Rocks, Vienna, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Stenzig J, Foo RS-Y (2016) DNA Methylation in Heart Failure, In: Backs J, McKinsey TA (Eds.), Epigenetics in Cardiac Disease, Cham, Springer International Publishing, 75–102.

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 AIMS Mathematics.

Blog post

Taub B (2015) IFLScience, Why Are People So Curious?, 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/ever-wondered-what-makes-us-so-curious-1/.

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 (2002) VA Information Technology: Management Making Important Progress in Addressing Key Challenges, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wasserman MM (2017) Psychological Symptoms, Family Functioning, and Religious Coping in Second- and Third-Generation Holocaust Survivors.

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

Healy P (2016) ‘Brexit’ Revolt Casts a Shadow Over Clinton’s Path of Caution. New York Times A1.

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	AIMS Mathematics
ISSN (online)	2473-6988
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