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

Jungmann, K.P.: Particle physics: Matter and antimatter scrutinized. Nature. 524, 168–169 (2015)

A journal article with 2 authors

Pedersen, T.R., Gerken, E.A.: Creation of visible artificial optical emissions in the aurora by high-power radio waves. Nature. 433, 498–500 (2005)

A journal article with 3 authors

Discher, D.E., Janmey, P., Wang, Y.-L.: Tissue cells feel and respond to the stiffness of their substrate. Science. 310, 1139–1143 (2005)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gan, X., Stegle, O., Behr, J., Steffen, J.G., Drewe, P., Hildebrand, K.L., Lyngsoe, R., Schultheiss, S.J., Osborne, E.J., Sreedharan, V.T., Kahles, A., Bohnert, R., Jean, G., Derwent, P., Kersey, P., Belfield, E.J., Harberd, N.P., Kemen, E., Toomajian, C., Kover, P.X., Clark, R.M., Rätsch, G., Mott, R.: Multiple reference genomes and transcriptomes for Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature. 477, 419–423 (2011)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stevenson, O.: Neglected Children and Their Families. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK (2008)

An edited book

Fox, R.I., Fox, C.M. eds: Sjögren’s Syndrome: Practical Guidelines to Diagnosis and Therapy. Springer, New York, NY (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Kafle, M.: EAP in Nepal. In: Liyanage, I. and Walker, T. (eds.) English for Academic Purposes (EAP) in Asia: Negotiating Appropriate Practices in a Global Context. pp. 51–64. SensePublishers, Rotterdam (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 Complex Analysis and its Synergies.

Blog post

Andrews, R.: Fracking Causes Over 12 Toxic Spills Per Week In The US, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/fracking-causes-12-toxic-spills-per-week-us/

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: Analysis of Travel Activities of Certain Regulatory Agency Commissioners During 1971-75. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1976)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tzillah, A.: The emissions of selected air pollutants from biodiesel fuel usage, (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

Pilon, M.: Hitting the Wall: For Marathon Charities, Numbers Are Slowing, (2013)

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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