How to format your references using the Journal of Algebra citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Algebra. 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]

J. Turney, Strings and things, Nature 410 (2001) 873.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Gano, R. Kinzler, SPORE series winner. Bringing the museum into the classroom, Science 331 (2011) 1028–1029.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Cremer, M.F. Sledge, J. Heinze, Chemical mimicry: male ants disguised by the queen’s bouquet, Nature 419 (2002) 897.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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L. Terrón-González, C. Medina, M.C. Limón-Mortés, E. Santero, Heterologous viral expression systems in fosmid vectors increase the functional analysis potential of metagenomic libraries, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1107.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Bains, Cultural DNA, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

K.S. Xu, D. Reitter, D. Lee, N. Osgood, eds., Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling: 9th International Conference, SBP-BRiMS 2016, Washington, DC, USA, June 28 - July 1, 2016, Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

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J. Liu, M.R. Johnston, Laboratory Models of Lung Cancer, in: K.N. Syrigos, C.M. Nutting, C. Roussos (Eds.), Tumors of the Chest: Biology, Diagnosis and Management, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006: pp. 43–56.

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 Journal of Algebra.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Solar Plane to Attempt Round-the-World Flight, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/solar-plane-attempt-round-world-flight/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, Superfund: EPA Needs to Better Focus Cleanup Technology Development, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

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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S. McKinney, An analysis of the influence of No Child Left Behind and Arizona Learns on middle -school principal leadership behaviors and responsibilities, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 2008.

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]

M.D. Shear, Trump to Release Kennedy Killing Papers, New York Times (2017) A27.

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	Journal of Algebra
Abbreviation	J. Algebra
ISSN (print)	0021-8693
Scope	Algebra and Number Theory