How to format your references using the International Journal of Applied and Computational Mathematics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Applied and Computational Mathematics. 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

Mahaffy, P.R.: Intensive Titan exploration begins. Science. 308, 969–970 (2005)

A journal article with 2 authors

Punnoose, A., Finkel’stein, A.M.: Metal-insulator transition in disordered two-dimensional electron systems. Science. 310, 289–291 (2005)

A journal article with 3 authors

Gu, C., Jan, Y.N., Jan, L.Y.: A conserved domain in axonal targeting of Kv1 (Shaker) voltage-gated potassium channels. Science. 301, 646–649 (2003)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Monecke, T., Güttler, T., Neumann, P., Dickmanns, A., Görlich, D., Ficner, R.: Crystal structure of the nuclear export receptor CRM1 in complex with Snurportin1 and RanGTP. Science. 324, 1087–1091 (2009)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

de Almeida, J.P.M., Maunder, E.A.W.: Equilibrium Finite Element Formulations. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2017)

An edited book

Elkadi, M., Mourrain, B., Piene, R. eds: Algebraic Geometry and Geometric Modeling. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2006)

A chapter in an edited book

Bravenboer, M., Visser, E.: Designing Syntax Embeddings and Assimilations for Language Libraries. In: Giese, H. (ed.) Models in Software Engineering: Workshops and Symposia at MoDELS 2007, Nashville, TN, USA, September 30 - October 5, 2007, Reports and Revised Selected Papers. pp. 34–46. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2008)

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 International Journal of Applied and Computational Mathematics.

Blog post

Andrews, R.: Want Your Own Hoverboard? It’s Yours, For Just $420!, https://www.iflscience.com/technology/want-your-own-hoverboard-its-yours-just-420/

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: Briefing on Air Force’s Response on Fee-For-Service Aerial Refueling. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2009)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ramakrishnan, L.: Multi-level adaptation for performability in dynamic web service workflows, (2009)

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

Brantley, B., Green, J., Soloski, A.: Too Soon? Or Right on Cue?, (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	International Journal of Applied and Computational Mathematics
Abbreviation	Int. J. Appl. Comput. Math.
ISSN (print)	2349-5103
ISSN (online)	2199-5796
Scope