How to format your references using the Complex Analysis and Operator Theory citation style

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

Blau, H.M.: A twist of fate. Nature. 419, 437 (2002)

A journal article with 2 authors

Callan, B., Gillespie, I.: The path to new medicines. Nature. 449, 164–165 (2007)

A journal article with 3 authors

Tasker, S.Z., Standley, E.A., Jamison, T.F.: Recent advances in homogeneous nickel catalysis. Nature. 509, 299–309 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, J., Zhang, C., Deng, M., Luo, J.: Reduction of friction stress of ethylene glycol by attached hydrogen ions. Sci. Rep. 4, 7226 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lewis, S.: Positive Psychology and Change. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2016)

An edited book

Capone, A., Lo Piparo, F., Carapezza, M. eds: Perspectives on Linguistic Pragmatics. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Ostgathe, C., Maier, B.-O.: Therapy of Cancer-Related Pain and Cancer Therapy-Related Pain. In: Alt-Epping, B. and Nauck, F. (eds.) Palliative Care in Oncology. pp. 59–78. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2015)

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 Operator Theory.

Blog post

Davis, J.: Ancient Fossil Shows First Evidence Of Live Births In Animals Thought To Only Lay Eggs, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-fossil-shows-first-evidence-of-live-births-in-animals-thought-to-only-lay-eggs/

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: U.S. Postal Service: Information on How Broadband Affects Postal Use and the Communications Options for Rural Residents. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2016)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Beck, R.E.: Examining the relationship between self-initiated expatriation and cross-cultural adjustment among expatriate spouses within nonprofit organizations: A quantitative causal-comparative study, (2012)

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

Gustines, G.G.: More Than Just Comic Books, But Plenty of Those, Too, (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 Operator Theory
Abbreviation	Complex Anal. Oper. Theory
ISSN (print)	1661-8254
ISSN (online)	1661-8262
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics