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

Osborne, J.: Arguing to learn in science: the role of collaborative, critical discourse. Science. 328, 463–466 (2010)

A journal article with 2 authors

Wolfe, M.S., Selkoe, D.J.: Biochemistry. Intramembrane proteases--mixing oil and water. Science. 296, 2156–2157 (2002)

A journal article with 3 authors

Ishishita, S., Matsuda, Y., Kitada, K.: Genetic evidence suggests that Spata22 is required for the maintenance of Rad51 foci in mammalian meiosis. Sci. Rep. 4, 6148 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yuan, S., Wang, J., Zhu, D., Wang, N., Gao, Q., Chen, W., Tang, H., Wang, J., Zhang, X., Liu, H., Rao, Z., Wang, X.: Cryo-EM structure of a herpesvirus capsid at 3.1 Å. Science. 360, (2018)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stavetski, E.J.: Managing Hedge Fund Managers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2009)

An edited book

Bhattacharya, N., Stubblefield, P. eds: Regenerative Medicine Using Pregnancy-Specific Biological Substances. Springer, London (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Xie, X., Li, Y., Sun, Y., Zhang, J., Fang, F., Yue, W., Pei, X.: Stem Cells and Hematopoietic Cell Engineering. In: Zhao, R.C. (ed.) Stem Cells: Basics and Clinical Translation. pp. 111–144. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2015)

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

Luntz, S.: NASA’s Kepler Mission Announced 715 New Exoplanets, https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasas-kepler-mission-announced-715-new-exoplanets/

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: FAA Procurement: Major Data-Processing Contract Should Not Be Awarded. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1990)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Newsom, S.M.: Love and Creativity: A Shared Dynamic, (2012)

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

Widdicombe, B.: Glamour? There’s an App for That, (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