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

Jewkes, R.: HIV/AIDS. Gender inequities must be addressed in HIV prevention. Science. 329, 145–147 (2010)

A journal article with 2 authors

Dunham-Snary, K.J., Ballinger, S.W.: GENETICS. Mitochondrial-nuclear DNA mismatch matters. Science. 349, 1449–1450 (2015)

A journal article with 3 authors

Preusser, F., Radies, D., Matter, A.: A 160,000-year record of dune development and atmospheric circulation in Southern Arabia. Science. 296, 2018–2020 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Laval, B., Cady, S.L., Pollack, J.C., McKay, C.P., Bird, J.S., Grotzinger, J.P., Ford, D.C., Bohm, H.R.: Modern freshwater microbialite analogues for ancient dendritic reef structures. Nature. 407, 626–629 (2000)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gregory, J.: Counterparty Credit Risk and Credit Value Adjustment. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK (2012)

An edited book

White, R. ed: Climate Change from a Criminological Perspective. Springer, New York, NY (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Legris, J.: Paul Hertz’s Systems of Propositions As a Proof-Theoretical Conception of Logic. In: Pereira, L.C., Haeusler, E.H., and de Paiva, V. (eds.) Advances in Natural Deduction: A Celebration of Dag Prawitz’s Work. pp. 93–101. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2014)

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

O`Callaghan, J.: Stunning New Vista Of Pluto Reveals Features Hidden In Darkness, https://www.iflscience.com/space/stunning-new-vista-pluto-reveals-features-hidden-darkness0/

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: Community-Based Correctional Programs Can Do More To Help Offenders. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1980)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McKenzie, N.J.: African/Black psychology: A qualitative investigation of distinguished Black psychologists, (2012)

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

George, N.: Still Too Good, Too Bad or Invisible, (2013)

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