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

Willyard, C.: Lifestyle: Breaking the cancer habit. Nature. 471, S16-7 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Bjørnerud, M.G., Austrheim, H.: Geophysics: hot fluids or rock in eclogite metamorphism? Nature. 440, E4; discussion E4-5 (2006)

A journal article with 3 authors

Weir, A.A.S., Chappell, J., Kacelnik, A.: Shaping of hooks in New Caledonian crows. Science. 297, 981 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bonhoeffer, S., Chappey, C., Parkin, N.T., Whitcomb, J.M., Petropoulos, C.J.: Evidence for positive epistasis in HIV-1. Science. 306, 1547–1550 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quadbeck-Seeger, H.-J.: World of the Elements. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany (2007)

An edited book

White, J., Smythe, G. eds: Growth Factors and Cytokines in Skeletal Muscle Development, Growth, Regeneration and Disease. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Guang, X., Zhang, Z.: Random Linear Network Error Correction Coding. In: Zhang, Z. (ed.) Linear Network Error Correction Coding. pp. 85–94. Springer, New York, NY (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 Operator Theory.

Blog post

Andrew, D.: How Much Would It Cost To Be Batman?, https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/cost-being-batman/

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: Federal Surplus Ships: Government Efforts to Address the Growing Backlog of Ships Awaiting Disposal. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1998)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Spillman, S.A.: Is More Always Better: Comparing the Effects of Single and Multiple Learning Channels on Academic Performance, (2014)

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

Baker, L.: Spurring Urban Growth in Vancouver, One Family at a Time, (2005)

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

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