How to format your references using the IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis citation style

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

Andersen, B. (2005) Space science. Crossroad for European space activity. Science, 307, 1206.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lloyd-Jones, G.C. & Ball, L.T. (2014) Catalysis. Self-control tames the coupling of reactive radicals. Science, 345, 381–382.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, G.-W., Oh, E., & Weissman, J.S. (2012) The anti-Shine-Dalgarno sequence drives translational pausing and codon choice in bacteria. Nature, 484, 538–541.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Riedl, S.J., Li, W., Chao, Y., Schwarzenbacher, R., & Shi, Y. (2005) Structure of the apoptotic protease-activating factor 1 bound to ADP. Nature, 434, 926–933.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rittereiser, C.M. & Kochard, L.E. (2010) Top Hedge Fund Investors. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jensen, F.V. (2007) Bayesian Networks and Decision Graphs: February 8, 2007, Second Edition ed. , Information Science and Statistics. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Babenyshev, S. & Rybakov, V. (2008) Decidability of Hybrid Logic with Local Common Knowledge Based on Linear Temporal Logic LTL. Logic and Theory of Algorithms: 4th Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2008, Athens, Greece, June 15-20, 2008 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Beckmann, A., Dimitracopoulos, C., & Löwe, B. eds). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 32–41.

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 Numerical Analysis.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016) Brewery Has Created Six-Pack Holders That Can Be Eaten By Marine Life. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/beer-brewery-has-created-edible-six-pack-holders-protect-marine-life/.

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 (1983) NASA-Ames Research Center Should Not Have Awarded Computational Services Contract to SBA and Technology Development of California ( No. AFMD-83-40). 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

Solari, S. (2009) A unified anatomical theory and computational model of cognitive information processing in the mammalian brain and the introduction of DNA reco codes (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

Vecsey, G. (2010) A Friend’s Mistake, An Understudy’s Chance. New York Times, SP5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Andersen, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Andersen, 2005; Lloyd-Jones & Ball, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Lloyd-Jones & Ball, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Riedl et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis
Abbreviation	IMA J. Numer. Anal.
ISSN (print)	0272-4979
ISSN (online)	1464-3642
Scope	General Mathematics Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics