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]

Friedman WE. Plant science. One genome, two ontogenies. Science. 2013;339(6123):1045–1046.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Horn PJ, Peterson CL. Molecular biology. Chromatin higher order folding--wrapping up transcription. Science. 2002;297(5588):1824–1827.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gibbs MJ, Armstrong JS, Gibbs AJ. Recombination in the hemagglutinin gene of the 1918 “Spanish flu.” Science. 2001;293(5536):1842–1845.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Pfitzner C, Schröder I, Scheungraber C, et al. Digital-Direct-RT-PCR: a sensitive and specific method for quantification of CTC in patients with cervical carcinoma. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3970.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Blicq RS, Moretto LA. Writing Reports to Get Results. New York, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Martin FF. Per una storia della geofisica italiana: La nascita dell’Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica (1936) e la figura di Antonino Lo Surdo. Calcara G, editor. Milano: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Vaquero JM. Solar Eclipses. In: Vaquero JM, editor. The Sun Recorded Through History: Scientific Data Extracted from Historical Documents. New York, NY: Springer; 2009. p. 175–216.

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]

Andrew E. New Research Shows How To Trap Cancer By Turning Your Body Against The Tumour [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-research-shows-how-trap-cancer-turning-your-body-against-tumour-0/.

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. K-12 Education: Many Challenges Arise in Educating Students Who Change Schools Frequently. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010. Report No.: GAO-11-40. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Eaglin M. A secondary data analysis of Latino families who successfully terminated with family preservation [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

[1]

Carey Goldberg With. Russia’s Doctors Are Beggars At Work, Paupers at Home. New York Times. 2000 Dec 16;A1.

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