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

Brody, H.: Hepatitis C. Nature. 474, S1 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheng, J.-X., Xie, X.S.: Vibrational spectroscopic imaging of living systems: An emerging platform for biology and medicine. Science. 350, aaa8870 (2015)

A journal article with 3 authors

Goossen, L.J., Deng, G., Levy, L.M.: Synthesis of biaryls via catalytic decarboxylative coupling. Science. 313, 662–664 (2006)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Floyd, J.S., Mutter, J.C., Goodliffe, A.M., Taylor, B.: Evidence for fault weakness and fluid flow within an active low-angle normal fault. Nature. 411, 779–783 (2001)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lunn, G.: HPLC Methods for Recently Approved Pharmaceuticals. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2005)

An edited book

Neves-Silva, R., Jain, L.C., Howlett, R.J. eds: Intelligent Decision Technologies: Proceedings of the 7th KES International Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies (KES-IDT 2015). Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Aman, B., Ciobanu, G., Koutny, M.: Behavioural Equivalences over Migrating Processes with Timers. In: Giese, H. and Rosu, G. (eds.) Formal Techniques for Distributed Systems: Joint 14th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, FMOODS 2012 and 32nd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, FORTE 2012, Stockholm, Sweden, June 13-16, 2012. Proceedings. pp. 52–66. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012)

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, E.: Five Things To Think About When Choosing A University Course, https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/five-things-think-about-when-choosing-university-course/

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: Space Operations: NASA’s Communications Support for Earth Orbiting Spacecraft. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1989)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cruz, W.: Extended services post reunification to enhance parent-child attachments: A grant proposal, (2009)

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

Brantley, B.: Vanishing Patricians, and Then What?, (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	Algebra universalis
Abbreviation	Algebra Universalis
ISSN (print)	0002-5240
ISSN (online)	1420-8911
Scope	Algebra and Number Theory