How to format your references using the Integral Transforms and Special Functions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Integral Transforms and Special Functions. 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

[1]

Carr AM. Checking that replication breakdown is not terminal. Science. 2002;297(5581):557–558.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kimmel AR, Parent CA. The signal to move: D. discoideum go orienteering. Science. 2003;300(5625):1525–1527.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Thibodeaux CJ, Melançon CE, Liu H-W. Unusual sugar biosynthesis and natural product glycodiversification. Nature. 2007;446(7139):1008–1016.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Rey J, Buffet PA, Ciceron L, et al. Reduced erythrocyte deformability associated with hypoargininemia during Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3767.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Adams F, Aizawa K. The Bounds of Cognition. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Villmann T, Schleif F-M, Kaden M, et al., editors. Advances in Self-Organizing Maps and Learning Vector Quantization: Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop, WSOM 2014, Mittweida, Germany, July, 2-4, 2014. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Caravagna G, Bortolussi L, Sanguinetti G. Matching Models Across Abstraction Levels with Gaussian Processes. In: Bartocci E, Lio P, Paoletti N, editors. Computational Methods in Systems Biology: 14th International Conference, CMSB 2016, Cambridge, UK, September 21-23, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 49–66.

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 Transforms and Special Functions.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Experimental Ebola Treatment Produced In Genetically Modified Plants [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/experimental-ebola-treatment-produced-genetically-modified-plants/.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Charges for Launch Support Services Furnished by the Air Force to the Communications Satellite Corporation (Comsat). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1971. Report No.: B-168707. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Black AM. Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Ohio Statewide Agricultural Leadership Program [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2006.

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

[1]

Brownell KD, Nestle M. The Sweet And Lowdown On Sugar. New York Times. 2004 Jan 23;A23.

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 Transforms and Special Functions
Abbreviation	Integral Transforms Spec. Funct.
ISSN (print)	1065-2469
ISSN (online)	1476-8291
Scope	Analysis Applied Mathematics