How to format your references using the Computational and Applied Mathematics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computational and Applied Mathematics. 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

de Souza Pereira R (2000) Yet the path is strewn with needless obstacles. Nature 407:834

A journal article with 2 authors

Hsiao JC, Fong K (2004) Making big money from small technology. Nature 428:218–220

A journal article with 3 authors

Adkins JF, McIntyre K, Schrag DP (2002) The salinity, temperature, and delta18O of the glacial deep ocean. Science 298:1769–1773

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Castrillon DH, Miao L, Kollipara R, et al (2003) Suppression of ovarian follicle activation in mice by the transcription factor Foxo3a. Science 301:215–218

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Edmonds ME, Foster AVM, Sanders LJ (2008) A Practical Manual of Diabetic Foot Care. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Grunewald K (2011) Landscape Development and Climate Change in Southwest Bulgaria (Pirin Mountains). Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Tirado MC, Meerman J (2012) Climate Change and Food and Nutrition Security. In: Thompson B, Cohen MJ (eds) The Impact of Climate Change and Bioenergy on Nutrition. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 43–60

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 Computational and Applied Mathematics.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) Forty Dead Tiger Cubs Found In Thai Tiger Temple’s Freezer. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/40-dead-tiger-cubs-have-been-found-thai-tiger-temples-freezer/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1991) Reports and Testimony: August 1991. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Heyen C (2015) Two predictors of smoking behaviors in the LGBTQ population: Anxiety and internalized homophobia. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Crow K (2002) Safe, for Now. New York Times 141

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (de Souza Pereira 2000).
This sentence cites two references (de Souza Pereira 2000; Hsiao and Fong 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Hsiao and Fong 2004)
Three or more authors: (Castrillon et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Computational and Applied Mathematics
Abbreviation	Comput. Appl. Math.
ISSN (print)	0101-8205
ISSN (online)	1807-0302
Scope	Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics