How to format your references using the Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing (AAECC). 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

Clawson, G.A.: Cancer. Fusion for moving. Science. 342, 699–700 (2013)

A journal article with 2 authors

Niehoff, D.L., Rhodes, R.: Ideas about the development of violent behavior. Science. 290, 1093c–5c (2000)

A journal article with 3 authors

Fu, A.C., Raizen, S.A., Shavelson, R.J.: Education. The nation’s report card: a vision of large-scale science assessment. Science. 326, 1637–1638 (2009)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

van Heijst, J.W.J., Gerlach, C., Swart, E., Sie, D., Nunes-Alves, C., Kerkhoven, R.M., Arens, R., Correia-Neves, M., Schepers, K., Schumacher, T.N.M.: Recruitment of antigen-specific CD8+ T cells in response to infection is markedly efficient. Science. 325, 1265–1269 (2009)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hopkins, B.R.: The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ (2015)

An edited book

Gibson, J.: Optical Flow and Trajectory Estimation Methods. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Audeh, B., Beaune, P., Beigbeder, M.: Recall-Oriented Evaluation for Information Retrieval Systems. In: Lupu, M., Kanoulas, E., and Loizides, F. (eds.) Multidisciplinary Information Retrieval: 6th Information Retrieval Facility Conference, IRFC 2013, Limassol, Cyprus, October 7-9, 2013. Proceedings. pp. 29–32. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (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 Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing.

Blog post

Carpineti, A.: Electromagnetism Has The Same Strength Across The Universe, https://www.iflscience.com/space/electromagnetism-has-the-same-strength-across-the-universe/

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: Embedded Computer Systems: C-17 Software Development Problems. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1991)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Khayyat, A.M.: Use of near field communication technology to prevent consumption and usage of expired products, (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

Vecsey, G.: Left on the Sideline as an Underdog Celebrates, (2011)

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	Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing
Abbreviation	Appl. Algebra Engrg. Comm. Comput.
ISSN (print)	0938-1279
ISSN (online)	1432-0622
Scope	Algebra and Number Theory Applied Mathematics