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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Long SR (2015) Symbiosis: Receptive to infection. Nature 523: 298–299.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brunnschweiler CN, Bulte EH (2008) Economics. Linking natural resources to slow growth and more conflict. Science 320: 616–617.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sha WEI, Li X, Choy WCH (2014) Breaking the space charge limit in organic solar cells by a novel plasmonic-electrical concept. Sci Rep 4: 6236.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lingel A, Simon B, Izaurralde E, et al. (2003) Structure and nucleic-acid binding of the Drosophila Argonaute 2 PAZ domain. Nature 426: 465–469.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Armajani J (2011) Modern Islamist Movements, Oxford, UK, Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Roncella A, Pristipino C (Eds.) (2016) Psychotherapy for Ischemic Heart Disease: An Evidence-based Clinical Approach, Cham, Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Mac an Airchinnigh M (2010) Let Me Tell You Something about (Y)our Culture?, In: Kurbanoğlu S, Al U, Lepon Erdoğan P, et al. (Eds.), Technological Convergence and Social Networks in Information Management: Second International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World, IMCW 2010, Ankara, Turkey, September 22-24, 2010. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 31–44.

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

Andrew E (2015) IFLScience, Scientists Make Neurons From Human Skin Cells Using Only Chemicals, 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-make-neurons-human-skin-cells-using-only-chemicals/.

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 (2006) Enterprise Architecture: Leadership Remains Key to Establishing and Leveraging Architectures for Organizational Transformation, 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

Mayo J (2010) Rates and factors associated with child maltreatment recurrence for children from birth to 5 years of age in Ventura County.

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

Nir SM (2017) Police Seek Photos of Central Park Related to 2016 Blast That Destroyed a Tourist’s Leg. New York Times A17.

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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