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

Read, P. (2011) Saturn: storm-clouds brooding on towering heights. Nature, 475, 44–45.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shaw, R.J. & Cantley, L.C. (2012) Cell biology. Ancient sensor for ancient drug. Science, 336, 813–814.

A journal article with 3 authors

Burslem, D.F., Garwood, N.C., & Thomas, S.C. (2001) Ecology. Tropical forest diversity--the plot thickens. Science, 291, 606–607.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Reddy, R.A., Zhu, C., Shao, R., Korblova, E., Gong, T., Shen, Y., Garcia, E., Glaser, M.A., Maclennan, J.E., Walba, D.M., & Clark, N.A. (2011) Spontaneous ferroelectric order in a bent-core smectic liquid crystal of fluid orthorhombic layers. Science, 332, 72–77.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cyr, K.S. (2010) Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 Administration. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Halaburda, H. (2016) Beyond Bitcoin: The Economics of Digital Currencies. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US.

A chapter in an edited book

Boulding, J.R. (2016) The Family as a Way Into the Future (1978). Elise Boulding: Writings on Feminism, the Family and Quakerism, Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice (Boulding, J.R. ed). Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 71–85.

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

Davis, J. (2015) Limb Regeneration Might Have Been The Original State For All Four-Legged Animals. IFLScience.

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 (1993) Airport Improvement Program: Program Funding by State Relative to Enplanements for Selected Years ( No. RCED-94-7FS). 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

Valdovinos, G. (2012) Entre familia (among family): A parent training and social support program for Latino families. A grant proposal (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

Hollander, S. (2009) T, Her Name Is Twindexane. New York Times, CY6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Read, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Read, 2011; Shaw & Cantley, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Shaw & Cantley, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Reddy et al., 2011)

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