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

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

[1]

J.E. Cohen, Human population: the next half century, Science 302 (2003) 1172–1175.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.G. Smock, L.M. Gierasch, Sending signals dynamically, Science 324 (2009) 198–203.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E. Caro, M.M. Castellano, C. Gutierrez, A chromatin link that couples cell division to root epidermis patterning in Arabidopsis, Nature 447 (2007) 213–217.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.K. Dougherty, H. Cao, K.K. Khurana, G.J. Hunt, G. Provan, S. Kellock, M.E. Burton, T.A. Burk, E.J. Bunce, S.W.H. Cowley, M.G. Kivelson, C.T. Russell, D.J. Southwood, Saturn’s magnetic field revealed by the Cassini Grand Finale, Science 362 (2018).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. El-Rewini, M. Abd-El-Barr, Advanced Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2004.

An edited book

[1]

M. Paluszek, MATLAB Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D.-H. Ki, Y.-D. Jung, Atomic Processes in Dusty Plasmas, in: V. Shevelko, H. Tawara (Eds.), Atomic Processes in Basic and Applied Physics, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 103–121.

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 Modelling.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, Scientists Finally Understand The 100-Year-Old Mystery Of This Sea Blob, IFLScience (2016).

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, Unmanned Vehicles: Assessment of DOD’s Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Master Plan, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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K.M. Warwick-Smith, Remembering Prudence: Tracking the Iconography of a Cardinal Virtue to Her Resurgence in Depth Psychology, Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2017.

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]

S.M. Eldred, S.F. Kovaleski, B. Sisario, Unsolved Mysteries, in Purple, New York Times (2017) C1.

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 Mathematical Modelling
Abbreviation	Appl. Math. Model.
ISSN (print)	0307-904X
Scope	Applied Mathematics Modelling and Simulation