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]

G.M. Narbonne, Geochemistry. Ocean chemistry and early animals, Science. 328 (2010) 53–54.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N. Tulina, E. Matunis, Control of stem cell self-renewal in Drosophila spermatogenesis by JAK-STAT signaling, Science. 294 (2001) 2546–2549.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. Pompilio, A. Kacelnik, S.T. Behmer, State-dependent learned valuation drives choice in an invertebrate, Science. 311 (2006) 1613–1615.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.P. Moore, P.J. Klasse, M.J. Dolan, S.K. Ahuja, AIDS/HIV. A STEP into darkness or light?, Science. 320 (2008) 753–755.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Kuus, Geopolitics and Expertise, John Wiley & Sons, Oxford, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

A. Abd Manaf, S. Sahibuddin, R. Ahmad, S. Mohd Daud, E. El-Qawasmeh, eds., Informatics Engineering and Information Science: International Conference, ICIEIS 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 14-16, 2011, Proceedings, Part IV, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Neubauer, E-Learning Support for Business Process Modeling: Linking Modeling Language Concepts to General Modeling Concepts and Vice Versa, in: C. Stary (Ed.), S-BPM ONE – Scientific Research: 4th International Conference, S-BPM ONE 2012, Vienna, Austria, April 4-5, 2012. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 62–76.

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

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T. Hale, UAE Outlaw Keeping Dangerous Animals As Pets, IFLScience. (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/uae-outlaw-keeping-dangerous-animals-as-pets/ (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 Traffic Control: Uncertainties and Challenges Face FAA’s Advanced Automated System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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M.I. Kehoe, Tobacco control: A qualitative assessment of the perceptions and practices of nurse practitioners, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2008.

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]

E. St. John Kelly, PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, New York Times. (1993) 139.

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

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