How to format your references using the Applicable Analysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Applicable Analysis. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

Abdool Karim SS. Stigma impedes AIDS prevention. Nature. 2011;474(7349):29–31.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Boolchand P, Bresser WJ. Mobile silver ions and glass formation in solid electrolytes. Nature. 2001;410(6832):1070–1073.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Melton C, Judson RL, Blelloch R. Opposing microRNA families regulate self-renewal in mouse embryonic stem cells. Nature. 2010;463(7281):621–626.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Ortiz-Urda S, Garcia J, Green CL, et al. Type VII collagen is required for Ras-driven human epidermal tumorigenesis. Science. 2005;307(5716):1773–1776.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Toutain L, Minaburo A. Local Networks and the Internet. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Salampasis M, Larsen B, editors. Multidisciplinary Information Retrieval: 5th Information Retrieval Facility Conference, IRFC 2012, Vienna, Austria, July 2-3, 2012 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Honna N, Takeshita Y. English as an International Language and Three Challenging Issues in English Language Teaching in Japan. In: Marlina R, Giri RA, editors. The Pedagogy of English as an International Language: Perspectives from Scholars, Teachers, and Students. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 65–77.

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 Analysis.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. Smart Female Guppies With Bigger Brains Choose More Attractive Mates [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/smart-female-guppies-with-bigger-brains-choose-more-attractive-mates/.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Information Technology: VA and DOD Continue to Expand Sharing of Medical Information, but Still Lack Comprehensive Electronic Medical Records. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007. Report No.: GAO-08-207T. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Novak TS. Vital Signs of U.S. Osteopathic Medical Residency Programs Pivoting to Single Accreditation Standards [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 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

[1]

Crow K. With Affluence All Around, A Little Crime Seems a Lot. New York Times. 2002 Nov 10;146.

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 Analysis
Abbreviation	Appl. Anal.
ISSN (print)	0003-6811
ISSN (online)	1563-504X
Scope	Analysis Applied Mathematics