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

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

Smaglik, P.: Going green: Ireland. Nature. 416, 4–5 (2002)

A journal article with 2 authors

Panian, J., Wiltschko, D.: Ramp initiation in a thrust wedge. Nature. 427, 624–627 (2004)

A journal article with 3 authors

Li de la Sierra-Gallay, I., Pellegrini, O., Condon, C.: Structural basis for substrate binding, cleavage and allostery in the tRNA maturase RNase Z. Nature. 433, 657–661 (2005)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dawson, M.A., Bannister, A.J., Göttgens, B., Foster, S.D., Bartke, T., Green, A.R., Kouzarides, T.: JAK2 phosphorylates histone H3Y41 and excludes HP1alpha from chromatin. Nature. 461, 819–822 (2009)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fink, J.K.: Metallized and Magnetic Polymers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2016)

An edited book

Batten, L., Li, G., Niu, W., Warren, M. eds: Applications and Techniques in Information Security: 5th International Conference, ATIS 2014, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, November 26-28, 2014. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Girbau, J., Bruna, L.: Stability by Linearization of Einstein’s Equation, General Concepts. In: Bruna, L. (ed.) Stability by Linearization of Einstein’s Field Equation. pp. 109–128. Birkhäuser, Basel (2010)

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 Applied Mathematics and Computing.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Scientists Use Lasers To Discover Ancient Lost City, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-lasers-are-helping-us-unlock-secrets-ancient-civilizations/

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: Telecommunications: The Proposed Performance Rights Act Would Result in Additional Costs for Broadcast Radio Stations and Additional Revenue for Record Companies, Musicians, and Performers. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2010)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Teeter, C.M.: Characterizing the Spatial Density Functions of Neural Arbors, (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

Walsh, M.W.: Puerto Rico Debt Plan Prioritizes Pensions, (2016)

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 Applied Mathematics and Computing
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Math. Comput.
ISSN (print)	1598-5865
ISSN (online)	1865-2085
Scope	Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics