How to format your references using the Complex Analysis and its Synergies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Complex Analysis and its Synergies. 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

Bennett, C.L.: Astronomy. Cosmology at a crossroads. Science. 325, 1347–1348 (2009)

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu, S.Q., Cull-Candy, S.G.: Synaptic activity at calcium-permeable AMPA receptors induces a switch in receptor subtype. Nature. 405, 454–458 (2000)

A journal article with 3 authors

Ikegami, H., Tsutsumi, Y., Kono, K.: Chiral symmetry breaking in superfluid 3He-A. Science. 341, 59–62 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hardy, J., Francis, K.P., DeBoer, M., Chu, P., Gibbs, K., Contag, C.H.: Extracellular replication of Listeria monocytogenes in the murine gall bladder. Science. 303, 851–853 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murray, A.: The Complete Software Project Manager. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ (2015)

An edited book

Smart, N.P. ed: Cryptography and Coding: 10th IMA International Conference, Cirencester, UK, December 19-21, 2005. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2005)

A chapter in an edited book

Daněk, M., Kafka, L., Kohout, L., Sýkora, J., Bartosiński, R.: The Basic UTLEON3 Architecture. In: Kafka, L., Kohout, L., Sýkora, J., and Bartosinski, R. (eds.) UTLEON3: Exploring Fine-Grain Multi-Threading in FPGAs. pp. 45–66. Springer, New York, NY (2013)

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 Complex Analysis and its Synergies.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Bowling Balls Teach Principles of Physics With Pendulum Wave, https://www.iflscience.com/physics/bowling-balls-teach-principles-physics-pendulum-wave/

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: Additional Actions Could Improve Federal Use of Data on Pipeline Materials and Corrosion. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2017)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dhah, S.: The relationship between job-embedded professional development and special education teacher self-efficacy in hard-to-staff middle schools, (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

Vecsey, G.: Indelible Name Added to a Roster of Regrets, (2011)

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	Complex Analysis and its Synergies
Abbreviation	Complex Anal. Its Synerg.
ISSN (online)	2197-120X
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