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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Katsnelson, A.: Cosmetics: Molecular beauty. Nature. 526, S4-5 (2015)

A journal article with 2 authors

Tuomisto, H., Ruokolainen, K.: Comment on “Disentangling the drivers of β diversity along latitudinal and elevational gradients.” Science. 335, 1573; author reply 1573 (2012)

A journal article with 3 authors

Lambers, J.H.R., Clark, J.S., Beckage, B.: Density-dependent mortality and the latitudinal gradient in species diversity. Nature. 417, 732–735 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hlawacek, G., Puschnig, P., Frank, P., Winkler, A., Ambrosch-Draxl, C., Teichert, C.: Characterization of step-edge barriers in organic thin-film growth. Science. 321, 108–111 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gianni, R.: Responsibility and Freedom. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2016)

An edited book

Knobloch, E., Komatsu, H., Liu, D. eds: Seki, Founder of Modern Mathematics in Japan: A Commemoration on His Tercentenary. Springer Japan, Tokyo (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Park, H., Sandefur, G.: Educational Gaps Between Immigrant and Native Students in Europe: The Role of Grade. In: Dronkers, J. (ed.) Quality and Inequality of Education: Cross-National Perspectives. pp. 113–136. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2010)

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

Carpineti, A.: Gravitational Lenses Let Astronomers See Brightest Galaxies Like Never Before

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: Year 2000 Computing Crisis: An Assessment Guide--Exposure Draft (Superseded by AIMD-10.1.14). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1997)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ponti, C.M.: The musical representation of Asian characters in the musicals of Richard Rodgers, (2010)

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

Saslow, L.: Brookhaven Lab Avoids Cuts in Budget, (2007)

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