How to format your references using the BIT Numerical Mathematics citation style

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

Eddy, S.R.: Genetics. Total information awareness for worm genetics. Science. 311, 1381–1382 (2006)

A journal article with 2 authors

Barton, G.M., Medzhitov, R.: Toll-like receptor signaling pathways. Science. 300, 1524–1525 (2003)

A journal article with 3 authors

Gladyshev, E.A., Meselson, M., Arkhipova, I.R.: Massive horizontal gene transfer in bdelloid rotifers. Science. 320, 1210–1213 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Anopheles gambiae 1000 Genomes Consortium, Data analysis group, Partner working group, Sample collections—Angola:, Burkina Faso:, Cameroon:, Gabon:, Guinea:, Guinea-Bissau:, Kenya:, Uganda:, Crosses:, Sequencing and data production, Web application development, Project coordination: Genetic diversity of the African malaria vector Anopheles gambiae. Nature. 552, 96–100 (2017)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nguyen, T.: Investing in the High Yield Municipal Market. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2012)

An edited book

Donelli, G. ed: Advances in Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health: Volume 4. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Li, W., Meng, W., Kwok, L.-F.: Design of Intrusion Sensitivity-Based Trust Management Model for Collaborative Intrusion Detection Networks. In: Zhou, J., Gal-Oz, N., Zhang, J., and Gudes, E. (eds.) Trust Management VIII: 8th IFIP WG 11.11 International Conference, IFIPTM 2014, Singapore, July 7-10, 2014. Proceedings. pp. 61–76. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2014)

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 BIT Numerical Mathematics.

Blog post

Hamilton, K.: Diagonal Ear Crease Linked To Increased Risk Of Coronary Heart Disease, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/diagonal-ear-crease-linked-to-increased-risk-of-coronary-heart-disease/

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: District of Columbia Public Schools: Student Enrollment Count Remains Vulnerable to Errors. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1997)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jin, R.: Graph-Based Rhythm Interpretation in Optical Music Recognition, (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

Qiu, L.: ‘Thousands’ of Jobs? And for Whom?, (2017)

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	BIT Numerical Mathematics
Abbreviation	BIT
ISSN (print)	0006-3835
ISSN (online)	1572-9125
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Software Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design