How to format your references using the Computers and Mathematics with Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computers and Mathematics with Applications. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

K. Robinson, Personal finance. Young scientists need firm plan to make up for a late start, Science 313 (2006) 1454–1457.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Sharma, J.P. Allison, Retrospective. Lloyd J. Old (1933-2011), Science 335 (2012) 49.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.-M. Schoffelen, R. Oostenveld, P. Fries, Neuronal coherence as a mechanism of effective corticospinal interaction, Science 308 (2005) 111–113.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Nishibayashi, M. Saito, S. Uemura, S.-I. Takekuma, H. Takekuma, Z.-I. Yoshida, Buckminsterfullerenes: a non-metal system for nitrogen fixation, Nature 428 (2004) 279–280.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K.S. Cyr, Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 Administration, Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

B. Jonsson, IIW Guidelines on Weld Quality in Relationship to Fatigue Strength, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S.C. Singh, Geophysical Viewpoints for Groundwater Resource Development and Management in Coastal Tracts, in: C. Wetzelhuetter (Ed.), Groundwater in the Coastal Zones of Asia-Pacific, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2013: pp. 67–87.

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 Computers and Mathematics with Applications.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Being In Nature Benefits Health - But How?, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/being-nature-benefits-health-how/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Air Passenger Screening: Transportation Security Administration Could Improve Complaint Processes, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Camaya, Teachers’ perceptions of social skills instruction for children with autism spectrum disorders, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2015.

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

[1]

M. Fernandez, A. Southall, Suspect Dead After Gun and Bomb Attack on Dallas Police, New York Times (2015) A16.

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	Computers and Mathematics with Applications
Abbreviation	Comput. Math. Appl.
ISSN (print)	0898-1221
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Computational Mathematics Modelling and Simulation