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

Zayats, A.V.: Perspective: A glint of the future. Nature. 495, S7 (2013)

A journal article with 2 authors

Gandhi, S.P., Stevens, C.F.: Three modes of synaptic vesicular recycling revealed by single-vesicle imaging. Nature. 423, 607–613 (2003)

A journal article with 3 authors

Mori, T., Vale, R.D., Tomishige, M.: How kinesin waits between steps. Nature. 450, 750–754 (2007)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yang, Z.-Y., Kong, W.-P., Huang, Y., Roberts, A., Murphy, B.R., Subbarao, K., Nabel, G.J.: A DNA vaccine induces SARS coronavirus neutralization and protective immunity in mice. Nature. 428, 561–564 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morsali, A., Hashemi, L.: Main Group Metal Coordination Polymers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2017)

An edited book

Catthoor, F.: Ultra-Low Energy Domain-Specific Instruction-Set Processors. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2010)

A chapter in an edited book

Mikulincer, M., Shaver, P.R., Solomon, Z.: An Attachment Perspective on Traumatic and Posttraumatic Reactions. In: Safir, M.P., Wallach, H.S., and Rizzo, A. “skip” (eds.) Future Directions in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment. pp. 79–96. Springer US, Boston, MA (2015)

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.: Mice Socially Transfer Pain – What About Humans?, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mice-socially-transfer-pain-what-about-humans/

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: Implementation of the Older Americans Comprehensive Services Amendments of 1973. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1975)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rich, D.W.: Examining the relationship of values-based management in performance evaluations, (2009)

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

Walsh, M.W., Schwartz, N.D.: Estimate of Economic Losses Now Up to $50 Billion, (2012)

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
Scope

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