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]

Walsh C. Enabling the chemistry of life. Nature. 2001;409:226–231.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ketting RF, Plasterk RH. A genetic link between co-suppression and RNA interference in C. elegans. Nature. 2000;404:296–298.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Coleman SW, Patricelli GL, Borgia G. Variable female preferences drive complex male displays. Nature. 2004;428:742–745.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Castelo-Branco M, Goebel R, Neuenschwander S, et al. Neural synchrony correlates with surface segregation rules. Nature. 2000;405:685–689.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Barbaroux P, Attour A, Schenk E. Knowledge Management and Innovation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Rattan SIS, Hayflick L, editors. Cellular Ageing and Replicative Senescence. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

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Jacob G, Debar H, Filiol E. Malware Behavioral Detection by Attribute-Automata Using Abstraction from Platform and Language. In: Kirda E, Jha S, Balzarotti D, editors. Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection: 12th International Symposium, RAID 2009, Saint-Malo, France, September 23-25, 2009 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 81–100.

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

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Andrew E. From Rockets To Space Toilets: Unique Exhibition Celebrates Soviet Cosmonauts [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/rockets-space-toilets-unique-exhibition-celebrates-soviet-cosmonauts/.

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

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Government Accountability Office. Job Training Partnership Act, Title III Dislocated Worker Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985. Report No.: 128415. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Diaz Gonzalez AJ. High-Pressure Study of Bio-inspired Multi-Functional Nanocomposites Using Atomic Force Microscopy Methods [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2017.

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]

Barron J. Long-Ago Brooklyn Brewer Left Hidden Underground Vaults, and Mystery. New York Times. 2017 Feb 2;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