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

Bacon, D. (2007) Physics. Does our universe allow for robust quantum computation? Science, 317, 1876–1877.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zavaleta, E.S. & Hulvey, K.B. (2004) Realistic species losses disproportionately reduce grassland resistance to biological invaders. Science, 306, 1175–1177.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brown, E.T., Molnar, P., & Bourlès, D.L. (2005) Comment on “Slip-rate measurements on the Karakorum Fault may imply secular variations in fault motion.” Science, 309, 1326; author reply 1326.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ratzinger, F., Haslacher, H., Poeppl, W., Hoermann, G., Kovarik, J.J., Jutz, S., Steinberger, P., Burgmann, H., Pickl, W.F., & Schmetterer, K.G. (2014) Azithromycin suppresses CD4(+) T-cell activation by direct modulation of mTOR activity. Sci. Rep., 4, 7438.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

German Geotechnical Society (2013) Taschenbuch für den Tunnelbau 2014. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Ferry, B. (2014) Stereotaxic Neurosurgery in Laboratory Rodent: Handbook on Best Practices. Paris: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Xiong, N. & Funk, P. (2016) Towards a Probabilistic Method for Longitudinal Monitoring in Health Care. Internet of Things Technologies for HealthCare: Third International Conference, HealthyIoT 2016, Västerås, Sweden, October 18-19, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (Ahmed, M.U., Begum, S., & Raad, W. eds). Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 30–35.

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

Andrew, E. (2015) U.S. And China Join Forces To Build A Bullet Train Between LA And Las Vegas. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/us-and-china-join-forces-build-bullet-train-between-la-and-las-vegas/.

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 (2002) Telecommunications: Federal and State Universal Service Programs and Challenges to Funding ( No. GAO-02-187). 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

Marchek, S.P. (2015) A quantitative investigation of the Technology Obsolescence Model (TOM) factors that influence the decision to replace obsolete systems (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

Cooper, M. & Walsh, M.W. (2012) Leading Way, 2 Cities Pass Pension Cuts. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bacon, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Zavaleta & Hulvey, 2004; Bacon, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Zavaleta & Hulvey, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Ratzinger et al., 2014)

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