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

Stone, R.: HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS: CERN Link Breathes Life Into Russian Physics. Science. 290, 250–252 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Azzalin, C.M., Lingner, J.: Cell biology. Telomere wedding ends in divorce. Science. 304, 60–62 (2004)

A journal article with 3 authors

Mouchel, C.F., Osmont, K.S., Hardtke, C.S.: BRX mediates feedback between brassinosteroid levels and auxin signalling in root growth. Nature. 443, 458–461 (2006)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Volpert, M., Mangum, J.E., Jamsai, D., D’Sylva, R., O’Bryan, M.K., McIntyre, P.: Eukaryotic expression, purification and structure/function analysis of native, recombinant CRISP3 from human and mouse. Sci. Rep. 4, 4217 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaisler, S.H.: Software Paradigms. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2005)

An edited book

Rhee, D.J.: Ophthalmologic Drug Guide. Springer, New York, NY (2007)

A chapter in an edited book

Shen, Y., Chen, J., Huang, X.: Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory with Gated Relevance Network for Paraphrase Identification. In: Lin, C.-Y., Xue, N., Zhao, D., Huang, X., and Feng, Y. (eds.) Natural Language Understanding and Intelligent Applications: 5th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2016, and 24th International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, ICCPOL 2016, Kunming, China, December 2–6, 2016, Proceedings. pp. 39–50. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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

Andrew, E.: Could Tau Ceti Be Humanity’s Next Home?, https://www.iflscience.com/space/tau-ceti-humanitys-next-home/

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: Information Technology: Agencies and OMB Should Strengthen Processes for Identifying and Overseeing High Risk Projects. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2006)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Olsen, S.L.: A Year of Sin An Experiential Exhibition of Sin, (2017)

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

Palmer, E., Otis, J.: Neediest Cases Fund Opens 105th Campaign, (2016)

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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