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]

Goldston D. Beware politicians bearing gifts. Nature. 2009;457:649.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lee M, Wanke MC. Applied physics. Searching for a solid-state terahertz technology. Science. 2007;316:64–65.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ginsberg MR, Rubin RA, Natowicz MR. Patterning of regional gene expression in autism: new complexity. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1831.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Pohl T, Al-Muqdadi SW, Ali MH, et al. Discovery of a living coral reef in the coastal waters of Iraq. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4250.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Yamarone R. The Trader’s Guide to Key Economic Indicators. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Boylan M, editor. Public Health Policy and Ethics. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Luczak A. Shaping of Neurons by Environmental Interaction. In: Cuntz H, Remme MWH, Torben-Nielsen B, editors. The Computing Dendrite: From Structure to Function. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. p. 79–90.

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]

Andrews R. World’s Oldest Orca Returns To Washington State Coast In “High Spirits” [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/worlds-oldest-orca-returns-to-washington-state-coast-in-high-spirits/.

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Leadership Needed to Collect and Disseminate Critical Biomedical Equipment Information. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998. Report No.: T-AIMD-98-310. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Sanchez Y. Effectiveness of parent-child interaction therapy for Latino families: A secondary analysis of existing data [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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]

Walsh MW. Debt Plan Still Fragile for Puerto Rico Utility, Lawmakers Are Told. New York Times. 2016 Jan 13;B5.

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

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