How to format your references using the Finite Fields and Their Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Finite Fields and Their 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]

D.P. Fry, Life without war, Science 336 (2012) 879–884.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H.S. Fisher, H.E. Hoekstra, Competition drives cooperation among closely related sperm of deer mice, Nature 463 (2010) 801–803.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E. Scherer, C. Munker, K. Mezger, Calibration of the lutetium-hafnium clock, Science 293 (2001) 683–687.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

G. Clarke, R.A. Collins, B.R. Leavitt, D.F. Andrews, M.R. Hayden, C.J. Lumsden, R.R. McInnes, A one-hit model of cell death in inherited neuronal degenerations, Nature 406 (2000) 195–199.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

O.G. Kulinkovich, Cyclopropanes in Organic Synthesis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

H.J. Hoogeboom, G. Păun, G. Rozenberg, A. Salomaa, eds., Membrane Computing: 7th International Workshop, WMC 2006, Leiden, The Netherlands, July 17-21, 2006, Revised, Selected, and Invited Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

W. van Grembergen, S. de Haes, COBIT as a Framework for Enterprise Governance of IT, in: W. Van Grembergen (Ed.), Enterprise Governance of Information Technology: Achieving Strategic Alignment and Value, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2009: pp. 137–164.

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 Finite Fields and Their Applications.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, It’s One Year Until A Total Solar Eclipse Sweeps Across America, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/its-one-year-until-a-total-solar-eclipse-sweeps-across-america/ (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, DOD Schools: Funding and Operating Alternatives for Education of Dependents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. Corona, Laws governing the treatment, involuntary detention and community integration of individuals with developmental disabilities: A policy analysis, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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. Corkery, M.J. de la MERCED, Nordstrom Family to Consider Ways of Taking Chain Private, New York Times (2017) B1.

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	Finite Fields and Their Applications
Abbreviation	Finite Fields Their Appl.
ISSN (print)	1071-5797
Scope	General Engineering Algebra and Number Theory Applied Mathematics Theoretical Computer Science