How to format your references using the Computational Methods and Function Theory citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computational Methods and Function Theory. 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

Holden, C.: ACADEMIC COMMUNITY: Ruling Allows Unions at Private Colleges. Science. 290, 1069–1071 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Picollo, A., Pusch, M.: Chloride/proton antiporter activity of mammalian CLC proteins ClC-4 and ClC-5. Nature. 436, 420–423 (2005)

A journal article with 3 authors

Wade, J.T., Hall, D.B., Struhl, K.: The transcription factor Ifh1 is a key regulator of yeast ribosomal protein genes. Nature. 432, 1054–1058 (2004)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pastalkova, E., Serrano, P., Pinkhasova, D., Wallace, E., Fenton, A.A., Sacktor, T.C.: Storage of spatial information by the maintenance mechanism of LTP. Science. 313, 1141–1144 (2006)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Norton, L.: How to Be a Global Nonprofit. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2013)

An edited book

Satoh, S., Nack, F., Etoh, M. eds: Advances in Multimedia Modeling: 14th International Multimedia Modeling Conference, MMM 2008, Kyoto, Japan, January 9-11, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2008)

A chapter in an edited book

Thaman, K.H.: Partnerships for Progressing Cultural Democracy in Teacher Education in Pacific Island Countries. In: Townsend, T. and Bates, R. (eds.) Handbook of Teacher Education. pp. 53–66. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2007)

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 Methods and Function Theory.

Blog post

Luntz, S.: Smackdown! Venomous Fish Deal Drugs On Coral Reefs, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/smackdown-venomous-fish-deal-drugs-on-coral-reefs/

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: Aviation Safety: Improved Data Quality and Analysis Capabilities Are Needed as FAA Plans a Risk-Based Approach to Safety Oversight. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2010)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Goodison, S.E.: The undiscovered country: Homicide, dynamic change, and deterrence in Washington, D.C. Neighborhoods, 1998-2006, (2014)

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

Gorman, J.: Maggot to Blowfly: Ready for Its Close-Up, (2017)

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	Computational Methods and Function Theory
Abbreviation	Comput. Methods Funct. Theory
ISSN (print)	1617-9447
ISSN (online)	2195-3724
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