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

Bensaude-Vincent, B.: Chemical analysis. Nature. 410, 415 (2001)

A journal article with 2 authors

Raman, K.V., Moodera, J.S.: Materials chemistry: A magnetic facelift for non-magnetic metals. Nature. 524, 42–43 (2015)

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, Y., Magan, J.J., Blau, W.J.: A general strategy for hybrid thin film fabrication and transfer onto arbitrary substrates. Sci. Rep. 4, 4822 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Brohawn, S.G., Leksa, N.C., Spear, E.D., Rajashankar, K.R., Schwartz, T.U.: Structural evidence for common ancestry of the nuclear pore complex and vesicle coats. Science. 322, 1369–1373 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Polushkin, V.: Nuclear Electronics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2005)

An edited book

Lockshin, R.A. ed: The Joy of Science: An Examination of How Scientists Ask and Answer Questions Using the Story of Evolution as a Paradigm. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2007)

A chapter in an edited book

Ramírez, M.L., Farnochi, M.C., Chulze, S.N.: Ecophysiology of Fusarium graminearum Main Pathogen Associated to Fusarium Head Blight in Latin America. In: Alconada Magliano, T.M. and Chulze, S.N. (eds.) Fusarium Head Blight in Latin America. pp. 45–55. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2013)

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.: SpaceX To Deliver Radiation-Eating Fungi From Chernobyl To The ISS, https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-to-deliver-radiationeating-fungi-from-chernobyl-to-the-iss/

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: Public Community Colleges and Technical Schools: Most Schools Use Both Credit and Noncredit Programs for Workforce Development. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2004)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Henry, A.G.: Plant foods and the dietary ecology of Neandertals and modern humans, (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

Rojas, R.: An Undertaker’s Discovery Turns a Death Into a Murder Case, (2015)

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

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