How to format your references using the Fixed Point Theory and Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fixed Point Theory and 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	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

Slonczewski, J.: Tuberculosis bacteria join UN. Nature. 405, 1001 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Jazayeri, M., Movshon, J.A.: A new perceptual illusion reveals mechanisms of sensory decoding. Nature. 446, 912–915 (2007)

A journal article with 3 authors

Sword, G.A., Lorch, P.D., Gwynne, D.T.: Insect behaviour: migratory bands give crickets protection. Nature. 433, 703 (2005)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Burmester, T., Weich, B., Reinhardt, S., Hankeln, T.: A vertebrate globin expressed in the brain. Nature. 407, 520–523 (2000)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cox, D.A.: Galois Theory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2004)

An edited book

Pal, B.D.: GHG Emissions and Economic Growth: A Computable General Equilibrium Model Based Analysis for India. Springer India, New Delhi (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Maraj, C.S., Martinez, S.G., Badillo-Urquiola, K.A., Stevens, J.A., Maxwell, D.B.: Preliminary Review of a Virtual World Usability Questionnaire. In: Lackey, S. and Shumaker, R. (eds.) Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality: 8th International Conference, VAMR 2016, Held as Part of HCI International 2016, Toronto, Canada, July 17-22, 2016. Proceedings. pp. 35–46. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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 Fixed Point Theory and Applications.

Blog post

Davis, J.: Cooperating Ants Follow A Leader When Moving Food, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cooperating-ants-follow-leader-when-moving-prey/

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: Tax Systems Modernization: Actions Underway But IRS Has Not Yet Corrected Management and Technical Weaknesses. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1996)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lyngarkos, B.: Examination of the relative importance of website elements for users of manufacturers representative websites, (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

Williams, J.: Zinzi Clemmons, (2017)

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	Fixed Point Theory and Applications
Abbreviation	Fixed Point Theory Appl.
ISSN (online)	1687-1812
Scope	Applied Mathematics Geometry and Topology