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

Keimer, B.: Physics. Quasi-particles survive--for now. Science. 292, 1498–1499 (2001)

A journal article with 2 authors

Cafaro, J., Rieke, F.: Noise correlations improve response fidelity and stimulus encoding. Nature. 468, 964–967 (2010)

A journal article with 3 authors

Chatterjee, A., Mitrović, M., Fortunato, S.: Universality in voting behavior: an empirical analysis. Sci. Rep. 3, 1049 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pappu, R., Recht, B., Taylor, J., Gershenfeld, N.: Physical one-way functions. Science. 297, 2026–2030 (2002)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pommier, S., Gravouil, A., Combescure, A., Moës, N.: Extended Finite Element Method for Crack Propagation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA (2013)

An edited book

Wagner, W. ed: AiKiDô: The Trinity of Conflict Transformation. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, G., Wang, G., Wang, F., Song, R.: A Transcriptional Roadmap for Seed Development in Maize. In: Agrawal, G.K. and Rakwal, R. (eds.) Seed Development: OMICS Technologies toward Improvement of Seed Quality and Crop Yield: OMICS in Seed Biology. pp. 81–97. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2012)

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

Davis, J.: There Are Just Three Saharan Addax Left In The Wild, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/only-three-saharan-addax-remain-wild/

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: A Bibliography of Documents Issued by the GAO on Matters Related to: Health. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1981)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Van Gilder, B.J.: American students’ communication abroad: Factors promoting and inhibiting interactions with host nationals, (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

Koblin, J.: ‘I Am Cait,’ Failing to Attract Viewers, Is Ending After Two Seasons, (2016)

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