How to format your references using the IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics. 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

Hubler, G.K. (2000) Fluff balls of fire. Nature, 403, 487–488.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bers, D.M. & Harris, S.P. (2011) Translational medicine: to the rescue of the failing heart. Nature, 473, 36–39.

A journal article with 3 authors

Euler, T., Detwiler, P.B., & Denk, W. (2002) Directionally selective calcium signals in dendrites of starburst amacrine cells. Nature, 418, 845–852.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kapoor, T.M., Lampson, M.A., Hergert, P., Cameron, L., Cimini, D., Salmon, E.D., McEwen, B.F., & Khodjakov, A. (2006) Chromosomes can congress to the metaphase plate before biorientation. Science, 311, 388–391.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pan, Y., Wang, J., & Li, M. (2013) Algorithmic and Artificial Intelligence Methods for Protein Bioinformatics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Fehr, S. (2011) Information Theoretic Security: 5th International Conference, ICITS 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 21-24, 2011. Proceedings, vol. 6673. , Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Roze, E., Bonnet, C., Betuing, S., & Caboche, J. (2010) Huntington’s Disease. Diseases of DNA Repair, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (Ahmad, S.I. ed). New York, NY: Springer, pp. 45–63.

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 IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015) Health Warning: Five Fashion Trends That are Terrible For You. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/health-warning-five-fashion-trends-are-terrible-you/.

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 (1992) Strategies to Improve Communication Between Program and Financial Managers ( No. 156238). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Strickland, K.C. (2012) A historical analysis of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa (Doctoral dissertation).

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

Philipps, D. & Hubbard, B. (2017) U.S. Soldier Who Survived Fatal Attack by a Jordanian Tells His Story. New York Times, A6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Hubler, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Hubler, 2000; Bers & Harris, 2011).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Bers & Harris, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Kapoor et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics
Abbreviation	IMA J Appl Math
ISSN (print)	0272-4960
ISSN (online)	1464-3634
Scope	Applied Mathematics