How to format your references using the Applied Categorical Structures citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Applied Categorical Structures. 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

Hill, G.E.: Ecology. A head start for some redstarts. Science. 306, 2201–2202 (2004)

A journal article with 2 authors

Ford, R., Spafford, E.H.: Computer science. Happy birthday, dear viruses. Science. 317, 210–211 (2007)

A journal article with 3 authors

Noble, M.E.M., Endicott, J.A., Johnson, L.N.: Protein kinase inhibitors: insights into drug design from structure. Science. 303, 1800–1805 (2004)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bowman, N.M., Congdon, S., Mvalo, T., Patel, J.C., Escamilla, V., Emch, M., Martinson, F., Hoffman, I., Meshnick, S.R., Juliano, J.J.: Comparative population structure of Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein NANP repeat lengths in Lilongwe, Malawi. Sci. Rep. 3, 1990 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Silvia, T., Anzur, T.: Power Performance. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK (2011)

An edited book

Meersman, R., Tari, Z. eds: On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE: OTM Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE 2006, Montpellier, France, October 29 - November 3, 2006. Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2006)

A chapter in an edited book

Hardy, K., Kelsey, T.W.: The Shale Gas Economy in the Northeast Pennsylvania Counties. In: Hefley, W.E. and Wang, Y. (eds.) Economics of Unconventional Shale Gas Development: Case Studies and Impacts. pp. 71–91. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

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 Applied Categorical Structures.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: New Solar Cell Breaks World Record For Efficiency, https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-solar-cell-breaks-world-record-efficiency/

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: Federal Research: Interim Report on the Pilot Technology Access Program. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1994)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hardin, J.: A study of social cognitive theory: The relationship between professional learning communities and collective teacher efficacy in international school settings, (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

Craig, S., Pilon, M.: Linked to Competitors, Judge Asserts Integrity, (2013)

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	Applied Categorical Structures
Abbreviation	Appl. Categ. Structures
ISSN (print)	0927-2852
ISSN (online)	1572-9095
Scope	General Computer Science Theoretical Computer Science