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

Gifford, D.K.: Blazing pathways through genetic mountains. Science. 293, 2049–2051 (2001)

A journal article with 2 authors

Binder, P.-M., Pipes, R.M.: Applied mathematics: how chaos forgets and remembers. Nature. 510, 343–344 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhou, T., Gao, Y., Wang, Z.D.: Topological quantum phase transitions and edge states in spin-orbital coupled Fermi gases. Sci. Rep. 4, 5218 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ali, M.A., Srivastava, S., Solanki, P.R., Reddy, V., Agrawal, V.V., Kim, C., John, R., Malhotra, B.D.: Highly efficient bienzyme functionalized nanocomposite-based microfluidics biosensor platform for biomedical application. Sci. Rep. 3, 2661 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Halstead, P.: Two Oxen Ahead. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, UK (2014)

An edited book

Motohashi, N. ed: Bioactive Heterocycles VII: Flavonoids and Anthocyanins in Plants, and Latest Bioactive Heterocycles II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009)

A chapter in an edited book

Hettige, S.: Neo-Liberal Reforms, the Ethnic Conflict and the Decline of Liberal Democracy in Sri Lanka. In: Wolf, S.O., Schöttli, J., Frommherz, D., Fürstenberg, K., Gallenkamp, M., König, L., and Pauli, M. (eds.) Politics in South Asia: Culture, Rationality and Conceptual Flow. pp. 61–72. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

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

Andrew, E.: We’re Hiring In Our London Office, https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/were-hiring/

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: Financial Information Lacking on Government Telecommunications Services and Equipment. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1983)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gillan-Sanderson, N.A.: A Study of the Effect of Additional Reading Assistance on Student Achievement, (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

Feeney, K.: To the City, From The Country, (2008)

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