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

Robinson, K.: Personal finance. So what should you invest in? Science. 313, 1456 (2006)

A journal article with 2 authors

Martinez, L.M., Angell, C.A.: A thermodynamic connection to the fragility of glass-forming liquids. Nature. 410, 663–667 (2001)

A journal article with 3 authors

Rojstaczer, S., Sterling, S.M., Moore, N.J.: Human appropriation of photosynthesis products. Science. 294, 2549–2552 (2001)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bilic, J., Huang, Y.-L., Davidson, G., Zimmermann, T., Cruciat, C.-M., Bienz, M., Niehrs, C.: Wnt induces LRP6 signalosomes and promotes dishevelled-dependent LRP6 phosphorylation. Science. 316, 1619–1622 (2007)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heimer, T., Werner, M.: Die Zukunft der Mikrosystemtechnik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG (2004)

An edited book

Miné, A., Schmidt, D. eds: Static Analysis: 19th International Symposium, SAS 2012, Deauville, France, September 11-13, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Ghisi, M., Gobbino, M.: On the Parabolic Regime of a Hyperbolic Equation with Weak Dissipation: The Coercive Case. In: Reissig, M. and Ruzhansky, M. (eds.) Progress in Partial Differential Equations: Asymptotic Profiles, Regularity and Well-Posedness. pp. 93–123. Springer International Publishing, Heidelberg (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 Operator Theory.

Blog post

Davis, J.: Plants May Arrange Their Flowers To Manipulate Bee Flight Patterns, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/plants-may-arrange-their-flowers-to-manipulate-bee-flight-patterns/

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: Subcontractor’s Problems With Prime Contractor at Kennedy Space Center. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1978)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Klepper, E.M.: Andragogy and Workplace Relationships: A Mixed-Methods Study Exploring Employees’ Perceptions of Their Relationships with Their Supervisors, (2017)

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

Hollander, S.: Even Among Venerable Texts, A Torah Like No Other, (2009)

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