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

Baker, D.: A surprising simplicity to protein folding. Nature. 405, 39–42 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Gabel, H.W., Greenberg, M.E.: Genetics. The maturing brain methylome. Science. 341, 626–627 (2013)

A journal article with 3 authors

Xie, X.S., Yu, J., Yang, W.Y.: Living cells as test tubes. Science. 312, 228–230 (2006)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wei, C.-Y., Gao, F., Wen, Q.-Y., Wang, T.-Y.: Practical quantum private query of blocks based on unbalanced-state Bennett-Brassard-1984 quantum-key-distribution protocol. Sci. Rep. 4, 7537 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Neward, T., Erickson, A.C., Crowell, T., Minerich, R.: Professional F# 2.0. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA (2010)

An edited book

Xie, X.: Suizhou Meteorite: Mineralogy and Shock Metamorphism. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Milton, K.A., Schwinger, J.: Variational Principles for Harmonic Time Dependence. In: Schwinger, J. (ed.) Electromagnetic Radiation: Variational Methods, Waveguides and Accelerators. pp. 79–94. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2006)

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

Andrew, E.: Photographer Captures Squirrel Trying To Steal Jack-o-Lanterns, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/photographer-captures-squirrel-trying-steal-jack-o-lanterns/

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: Disadvantaged Students: Fiscal Oversight of Title I Could Be Improved. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2003)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Osterhout, H.L.: No More “Mad Money”: Salvaging the Commander’s Emergency Response Program, (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

Kishkovsky, S.: The Bolshoi Ballet Appoints a New Artistic Director, (2008)

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