How to format your references using the Boundary Value Problems citation style

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

Christensen, U.R.: A deep dynamo generating Mercury’s magnetic field. Nature. 444, 1056–1058 (2006)

A journal article with 2 authors

Murakami, M., Kouyama, T.: Crystal structure of squid rhodopsin. Nature. 453, 363–367 (2008)

A journal article with 3 authors

Kolodner, R.D., Cleveland, D.W., Putnam, C.D.: Cancer. Aneuploidy drives a mutator phenotype in cancer. Science. 333, 942–943 (2011)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hetzel, R., Niedermann, S., Tao, M., Kubik, P.W., Ivy-Ochs, S., Gao, B., Strecker, M.R.: Low slip rates and long-term preservation of geomorphic features in Central Asia. Nature. 417, 428–432 (2002)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Poltorak, A.I., Lerner, P.J.: Essentials of Intellectual Property. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2011)

An edited book

Hays, S.A., Robert, J.S., Miller, C.A., Bennett, I. eds: Nanotechnology, the Brain, and the Future. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Techera, E.J.: Ensuring the Viability of Cultural Heritage: The Role of International Heritage Law for Pacific Island States. In: Baldacchino, G. and Niles, D. (eds.) Island Futures: Conservation and Development Across the Asia-Pacific Region. pp. 37–51. Springer Japan, Tokyo (2011)

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 Boundary Value Problems.

Blog post

Fang, J.: Jupiter Was A Wrecking Ball That Smashed Through Early Solar System, https://www.iflscience.com/space/early-jupiter-was-wrecking-ball-smashed-through-baby-super-earths/

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: Safety Effects of Less Prescriptive Requirements for Low-Stress Natural Gas Transmission Pipelines Are Uncertain. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2012)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nomberg, R.I.: Understanding interest group strategies: A case study of civic leaders collaborating with local government, (2009)

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

Kenigsberg, B.: Review: ‘Videofilia (and Other Viral Syndromes)’ Is a Digital Hall of Mirrors, (2016)

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	Boundary Value Problems
Abbreviation	Bound. Value Probl.
ISSN (online)	1687-2770
Scope	Algebra and Number Theory Analysis