How to format your references using the Algebra universalis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Algebra universalis. 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

Schiermeier, Q.: Radar satellites: mountains to molehills. Nature. 446, 22–23 (2007)

A journal article with 2 authors

Li, G., Luo, Z.-X.: A Cretaceous symmetrodont therian with some monotreme-like postcranial features. Nature. 439, 195–200 (2006)

A journal article with 3 authors

Baldwin, M.P., Dameris, M., Shepherd, T.G.: Atmosphere. How will the stratosphere affect climate change? Science. 316, 1576–1577 (2007)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tolstoy, M., Waldhauser, F., Bohnenstiehl, D.R., Weekly, R.T., Kim, W.-Y.: Seismic identification of along-axis hydrothermal flow on the East Pacific Rise. Nature. 451, 181–184 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kääriäinen, T., Cameron, D., Kääriäinen, M.-L., Sherman, A.: Atomic Layer Deposition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2013)

An edited book

Knüpfer, A., Hilbrich, T., Niethammer, C., Gracia, J., Nagel, W.E., Resch, M.M. eds: Tools for High Performance Computing 2015: Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Parallel Tools for High Performance Computing, September 2015, Dresden, Germany. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Zembaty, Z., Rossi, A., Spagnoli, A.: Estimation of Rotational Ground Motion Effects on the Bell Tower of Parma Cathedral. In: Zembaty, Z. and De Stefano, M. (eds.) Seismic Behaviour and Design of Irregular and Complex Civil Structures II. pp. 35–48. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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 Algebra universalis.

Blog post

Andrew, D.: Sloths Aren’t Lazy – Their Slowness Is A Survival Skill, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sloths-arent-lazy-their-slowness-is-a-survival-skill/

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: Information Technology: Leading Commercial Practices for Outsourcing of Services. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2001)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Schellhous, W.T.: Factors and Interactions Contributing to the Risk of Fire following Earthquake for Urban Southern California, (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

Kelly, B.K.B., Writer, A., has covered Chicago politics for eight years: CHICAGO AND ITS MAYOR, TWO YEARS LATER, (1985)

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	Algebra universalis
Abbreviation	Algebra Universalis
ISSN (print)	0002-5240
ISSN (online)	1420-8911
Scope	Algebra and Number Theory