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

Hare T (2014) Neuroscience. Exploiting and exploring the options. Science 344:1446–1447

A journal article with 2 authors

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

A journal article with 3 authors

Lowman M, D’Avanzo C, Brewer C (2009) Ecology. A national ecological network for research and education. Science 323:1172–1173

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Johnson J, Canning J, Kaneko T, et al (2004) Germline stem cells and follicular renewal in the postnatal mammalian ovary. Nature 428:145–150

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dunnivant FM, Anders E (2005) A Basic Introduction to Pollutant Fate and Transport. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Nicosevici T (2013) Efficient 3D Scene Modeling and Mosaicing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Strange H, Zwiggelaar R (2014) Incorporating New Points. In: Zwiggelaar R (ed) Open Problems in Spectral Dimensionality Reduction. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 53–68

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

Andrew E (2013) Take College And University Courses Online Completely Free. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/take-college-and-university-courses-online-completely-free/. 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 (1987) [Comments on MARAD Cooperative Agreement Award for Ship Simulator]. 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

O’Connell AM (2008) Customer retention and leadership in the nonprofit healthcare organization. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Greenhouse L (2005) Supreme Court to Determine Fate of Business Tax Credits. New York Times C3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hare 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Neumann and Mazarico 2009; Hare 2014).

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

Two authors: (Neumann and Mazarico 2009)
Three or more authors: (Johnson et al. 2004)

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