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

Malescio G (2005) Predicting with unpredictability. Nature 434:1073

A journal article with 2 authors

Rappuoli R, Covacci A (2003) Reverse vaccinology and genomics. Science 302:602

A journal article with 3 authors

Sorenson MD, Sefc KM, Payne RB (2003) Speciation by host switch in brood parasitic indigobirds. Nature 424:928–931

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Christophorou MA, Ringshausen I, Finch AJ, et al (2006) The pathological response to DNA damage does not contribute to p53-mediated tumour suppression. Nature 443:214–217

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mallée R, Fuchs W, Eligehausen R (2013) Design of Fastenings for Use in Concrete - the CEN/TS 1992-4 Provisions. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Krcmar H, Reussner R, Rumpe B (eds) (2014) Trusted Cloud Computing. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Ono Y, Ishiyama A (2008) Magnetoencephalography: Basic Theory and Estimation Techniques of Working Brain Activity. In: Onozuka M, Yen C-T (eds) Novel Trends in Brain Science: Brain Imaging, Learning and Memory, Stress and Fear, and Pain. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 77–93

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

Hamilton K (2016) Do Women’s Periods Really Synch When They Spend Time Together? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/do-womens-periods-really-synch-when-they-spend-time-together/. 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 (1999) Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Concerns About Compliance Information on Biomedical Equipment. 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

Yuknis CM (2010) A grounded theory of deaf middle school students’ revision of their own writing. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Fitzsimmons EG (2014) For Families, Memories Mix With Fading Hope. New York Times A8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Malescio 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Rappuoli and Covacci 2003; Malescio 2005).

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

Two authors: (Rappuoli and Covacci 2003)
Three or more authors: (Christophorou et al. 2006)

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