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]

Sligar SG. Chemistry. Glimpsing the critical intermediate in cytochrome P450 oxidations. Science. 2010;330(6006):924–925.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ron D, Ito K. Cell biology. A translational pause to localize. Science. 2011;331(6017):543–544.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Mouchel CF, Osmont KS, Hardtke CS. BRX mediates feedback between brassinosteroid levels and auxin signalling in root growth. Nature. 2006;443(7110):458–461.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Rudebeck PH, Buckley MJ, Walton ME, et al. A role for the macaque anterior cingulate gyrus in social valuation. Science. 2006;313(5791):1310–1312.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Vallin RW. The Elements of Cantor Sets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Xu J. Protein Homology Detection Through Alignment of Markov Random Fields: Using MRFalign. Wang S, Ma J, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Yu J, Shen Y. Evolutionary Personalized Hashtag Recommendation. In: Li F, Li G, Hwang S-W, et al., editors. Web-Age Information Management: 15th International Conference, WAIM 2014, Macau, China, June 16-18, 2014 Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 34–37.

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]

Hale T. JAXA Releases Mind-Blowing Shots Of The Moon’s Surface [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/jaxa-releases-mind-blowing-shots-of-the-moons-surface/.

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. Mistake In Proposal Alleged After Award. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973. Report No.: B-176772. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Goldstein DL. Integration of geospatial technologies into K–12 curriculum: An investigation of teacher and student perceptions and student academic achievement [Doctoral dissertation]. [Boca Raton, FL]: Florida Atlantic University; 2010.

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]

Johnson G. What Made Him Tick. New York Times. 2013 Jun 30;BR22.

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