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]

Watling L. Deep-sea trawling must be banned. Nature. 2013;501:7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

McIntosh AR, Lobaugh NJ. Neuroscience. When is a word not a word? Science. 2003;301:322–323.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Rai A, Menon AV, Jalan S. Randomness and preserved patterns in cancer network. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6368.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Kaiser BK, Yim D, Chow I-T, et al. Disulphide-isomerase-enabled shedding of tumour-associated NKG2D ligands. Nature. 2007;447:482–486.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Yan W. Crop Variety Trials. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Embree L, Nenon T, editors. Husserl’s Ideen. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Oh SH, Lhm JT. CDMA2000 1X & 1X EV-DO. In: Park Y, Adachi F, editors. Enhanced Radio Access Technologies for Next Generation Mobile Communication. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007. p. 151–190.

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. Missouri Bill Would Allow Students To “Opt-Out” of Learning Evolution. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Information on Federally Assisted Health Professions Scholarship Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979. Report No.: HRD-79-57. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Conti AI. Dirty hands, virtue ethics, and consequentialism [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]

Koblin J, Shea CD. Outing of ‘Survivor’ Contestant That Set Off an Uproar Was Shot Months Ago. New York Times. 2017 Apr 13;B3.

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

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