How to format your references using the Applied Mathematical Finance citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Applied Mathematical Finance. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Yamanouchi, K. (2002). The next frontier. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5560), 1659–1660.
A journal article with 2 authors
Aratyn-Schaus, Y., & Gardel, M. L. (2008). Biophysics. Clutch dynamics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5908), 1646–1647.
A journal article with 3 authors
Bichot, N. P., Rossi, A. F., & Desimone, R. (2005). Parallel and serial neural mechanisms for visual search in macaque area V4. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5721), 529–534.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Korneev, S. A., Kemenes, I., Bettini, N. L., Kemenes, G., Staras, K., Benjamin, P. R., & O’Shea, M. (2013). Axonal trafficking of an antisense RNA transcribed from a pseudogene is regulated by classical conditioning. Scientific Reports, 3, 1027.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Marcus, Y. (2012). Supercritical Water. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Heng, S.-H., Wright, R. N., & Goi, B.-M. (Eds.). (2010). Cryptology and Network Security: 9th International Conference, CANS 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 12-14, 2010. Proceedings (Vol. 6467). Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Sall, M., Chandran, N., Terzidou, A., Lioutas, C. B., & Polychroniadis, E. K. (2015). TEM Characterization of a Complex Twinning System in 3C–SiC. In E. K. Polychroniadis, A. Y. Oral, & M. Ozer (Eds.), 2nd International Multidisciplinary Microscopy and Microanalysis Congress: Proceedings of InterM, October 16-19, 2014 (pp. 25–29). Springer International Publishing.

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 Mathematical Finance.

Blog post
Hale, T. (2016, October 11). Secret Air Force Space Plane Remains A Mystery After 500-Day Orbit. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/secret-air-force-space-plane-remains-a-mystery-after-500day-orbit/

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. (1986). [Response to Request for Views on Application of P.L. 99-177 to Teacher Loan Cancellations] (B-221498.20). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
Dennard, B. (2017). The Impact of Racial Centrality on Authenticity and the Race-Based Impression Management Strategies of Black Management Consultants [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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
Wagner, J. (2017, September 18). For Some Major Leaguers, It’s Always Great to See ‘Friends.’ New York Times, D1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Yamanouchi, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Aratyn-Schaus & Gardel, 2008; Yamanouchi, 2002).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

  • Two authors: (Aratyn-Schaus & Gardel, 2008)
  • Three authors: (Bichot et al., 2005)
  • 6 or more authors: (Korneev et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal titleApplied Mathematical Finance
AbbreviationAppl. Math. Finance
ISSN (print)1350-486X
ISSN (online)1466-4313
ScopeFinance
Applied Mathematics

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