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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

May, R.M. Raising Europe’s Game. Nature 2004, 430, 831–832.

A journal article with 2 authors

Heyduk, A.F.; Nocera, D.G. Hydrogen Produced from Hydrohalic Acid Solutions by a Two-Electron Mixed-Valence Photocatalyst. Science 2001, 293, 1639–1641.

A journal article with 3 authors

Morgan, A.D.; Gandon, S.; Buckling, A. The Effect of Migration on Local Adaptation in a Coevolving Host-Parasite System. Nature 2005, 437, 253–256.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Teder, P.; Vandivier, R.W.; Jiang, D.; Liang, J.; Cohn, L.; Puré, E.; Henson, P.M.; Noble, P.W. Resolution of Lung Inflammation by CD44. Science 2002, 296, 155–158.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Allen, D.S. Why Plato Wrote; Blackwell Publishing Ltd.: Oxford, UK, 2012; ISBN 9781118556696.

An edited book

The Cosmos and the Creative Imagination; Tymieniecka, A.-T., Trutty-Coohill, P., Eds.; Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; Vol. 119; ISBN 9783319217918.

A chapter in an edited book

Mosteller, F. The Safety of Anesthetics: The National Halothane Study. In The Pleasures of Statistics: The Autobiography of Frederick Mosteller; Fienberg, S.E., Hoaglin, D.C., Tanur, J.M., Eds.; Springer: New York, NY, 2010; pp. 69–88 ISBN 9780387779553.

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

Andrews, R. Rick Perry Set To Head Department Of Energy Despite Once Forgetting It Existed Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/rick-perry-set-to-head-department-of-energy-despite-once-forgetting-it-existed/ (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 Youth Training; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1994;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dutta, A. Systems Optimization for Mobility Management. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University: New York, NY, 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

Vecsey, G. In Rejection of Steinbrenner, the Hall Adopts His Brashness. New York Times 2016, D8.

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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