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

Jayaraman, K.S.: Syngenta ready to drop plans for Indian rice venture. Nature. 420, 596 (2002)

A journal article with 2 authors

Gervais, W.M., Norenzayan, A.: Analytic thinking promotes religious disbelief. Science. 336, 493–496 (2012)

A journal article with 3 authors

Antonioni, A., Sanchez, A., Tomassini, M.: Global information and mobility support coordination among humans. Sci. Rep. 4, 6458 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Barabé, F., Kennedy, J.A., Hope, K.J., Dick, J.E.: Modeling the initiation and progression of human acute leukemia in mice. Science. 316, 600–604 (2007)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ketring, K.L., Glaze, M.B.: Atlas of Feline Ophthalmology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., West Sussex, UK (2012)

An edited book

Menezes, A. ed: Topics in Cryptology – CT-RSA 2005: The Cryptographers’ Track at the RSA Conference 2005, San Francisco, CA, USA, February 14-18, 2005. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2005)

A chapter in an edited book

Dietrich, F., Maaß, J., Bier, C., Pietsch, I., Raatz, A., Hesselbach, J.: Detection and Avoidance of Singularities in Parallel Kinematic Machines. In: Schütz, D. and Wahl, F.M. (eds.) Robotic Systems for Handling and Assembly. pp. 77–92. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2011)

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

Fang, J.: Skin Cancer Drug Allows Fruit Flies to Live Longer, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/skin-cancer-drug-allows-fruit-flies-live-longer/

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: Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2003)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fadamin, A.: Synthesis, Characterization and Electrochemistry of the Ruthenium Schiff Base Complex [(Saloph)Ru(NO)Cl], (2017)

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

Feeney, K.: QUICK BITE/Edison; Sandwich for Five?, (2006)

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

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