How to format your references using the Complex Variables and Elliptic Equations citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Complex Variables and Elliptic Equations. 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

[1]

Hoal E. Genome-sequencing anniversary. Famine in the presence of the genomic data feast. Science. 2011;331:874.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Neumann GA, Mazarico E. Planetary science. Seeing the missing half. Science. 2009;323:885–887.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Van Valkenburgh B, Wang X, Damuth J. Cope’s rule, hypercarnivory, and extinction in North American canids. Science. 2004;306:101–104.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Impellizzeri CMV, McKean JP, Castangia P, et al. A gravitationally lensed water maser in the early Universe. Nature. 2008;456:927–929.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Drago C. Implant Restorations. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Song IY, Eder J, Nguyen TM, editors. Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery: 9th International Conference, DaWaK 2007, Regensburg Germany, September 3-7, 2007. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Trujillo M, Romero R, Berjano E. Modelos Teóricos basados en Métodos Numéricos de un Aplicador Cool-tip para Ablación RF de Tumores: Relación entre la Temperatura y la Impedancia. In: Folgueras Méndez J, Aznielle Rodríguez TY, Calderón Marín CF, et al., editors. V Latin American Congress on Biomedical Engineering CLAIB 2011 May 16-21, 2011, Habana, Cuba: Sustainable Technologies for the Health of All. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 17–20.

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 Variables and Elliptic Equations.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K. 15 Common Inaccuracies Found In Science Illustrations [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/watch-video-about-15-inaccuracies-found-common-science-illustrations/.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Highway Bridge Program: Clearer Goals and Performance Measures Needed for a More Focused and Sustainable Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008. Report No.: GAO-08-1127T. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Takele T. Confinement Mechanisms in Quantum Chromodynamics [Doctoral dissertation]. [Cincinnati, OH]: University of Cincinnati; 2003.

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

[1]

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Estonia: Vodka Pipeline. New York Times. 2004 Dec 14;A6.

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 Variables and Elliptic Equations
Abbreviation	Complex Var. Elliptic Equ.
ISSN (print)	1747-6933
ISSN (online)	1747-6941
Scope	Analysis Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics Numerical Analysis