How to format your references using the Integral Equations and Operator Theory citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Integral Equations and Operator Theory. 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

Hapgood, M.: Astrophysics: Prepare for the coming space weather storm. Nature. 484, 311–313 (2012)

A journal article with 2 authors

DellaPenna, D., O’Connor, S.E.: Plant science. Plant gene clusters and opiates. Science. 336, 1648–1649 (2012)

A journal article with 3 authors

Stewart, J.T., Gaebler, J.P., Jin, D.S.: Using photoemission spectroscopy to probe a strongly interacting Fermi gas. Nature. 454, 744–747 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhao, Z.-D., Yang, Z., Zhang, Z., Zhou, T., Huang, Z.-G., Lai, Y.-C.: Emergence of scaling in human-interest dynamics. Sci. Rep. 3, 3472 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

First, M.B., Tasman, A.: Clinical Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Disorders. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2006)

An edited book

Malczewski, J.: Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Geographic Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Sun, J., Zhou, W., Nawaz, Z., Slingerland, J.M.: Cross Talk Between ERα and Src Signaling and Its Relevance to ER Status and Hormone Responsiveness. In: Castoria, G. and Migliaccio, A. (eds.) Advances in Rapid Sex-Steroid Action: New Challenges and New Chances in Breast and Prostate Cancers. pp. 61–78. Springer, New York, NY (2012)

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 Integral Equations and Operator Theory.

Blog post

Fang, J.: Burial Pods Could Turn Cemeteries Into Forests

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: Railroad Safety: Reporting Time Frames and Results of Post-Accident Drug Tests. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1988)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Plumer, D.R.: The relationship between earned value management metrics and customer satisfaction, (2010)

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

Wagner, J.: For a Weekend, ‘Lil D’ on a Jersey and Sinatra on Cleats, (2017)

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	Integral Equations and Operator Theory
Abbreviation	Integral Equations Operator Theory
ISSN (print)	0378-620X
ISSN (online)	1420-8989
Scope	Algebra and Number Theory Analysis