How to format your references using the Axioms citation style

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

Heglund, N.C. Physiology. Running a-Fowl of the Law. Science 2004, 303, 47–48.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ellis, G.; Silk, J. Scientific Method: Defend the Integrity of Physics. Nature 2014, 516, 321–323.

A journal article with 3 authors

Traag, V.A.; Krings, G.; Van Dooren, P. Significant Scales in Community Structure. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2930.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mikkola, I.; Heavey, B.; Horcher, M.; Busslinger, M. Reversion of B Cell Commitment upon Loss of Pax5 Expression. Science 2002, 297, 110–113.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Traitler, H. Food Industry Innovation School, The; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2015; ISBN 9781118947654.

An edited book

Control Theory of Digitally Networked Dynamic Systems; Lunze, J., Ed.; Springer International Publishing: Heidelberg, 2014; ISBN 9783319011301.

A chapter in an edited book

Yang, W.; Shen, L.; Shi, P. Mapping Landslide Risk of the World. In World Atlas of Natural Disaster Risk; Shi, P., Kasperson, R., Eds.; IHDP/Future Earth-Integrated Risk Governance Project Series; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015; pp. 57–66 ISBN 9783662454299.

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 Axioms.

Blog post

Fang, J. Engineered Human Intestines Function Like the Real Thing in Mice Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/engineered-human-intestines-function-real-thing-mice/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 Pipeline Safety: Use of Instrumented Technology to Inspect Pipelines; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1993;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Regmi, K. Computer Vision and Image Processing Toolbox for MATLAB. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University: Edwardsville, IL, 2015.

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

Kishkovsky, S. For Russia’s Nouveaux Riches, Indoor Plumbing Deluxe. New York Times 2005, A4.

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	Axioms
Abbreviation	Axioms
ISSN (online)	2075-1680
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