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

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

A. Boetius, Ocean science. Lost City life, Science 307 (2005) 1420–1422.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. Toyoshima, H. Nomura, Structural changes in the calcium pump accompanying the dissociation of calcium, Nature 418 (2002) 605–611.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.-J. Hung, C.W. Pak, J.R. Terman, Direct redox regulation of F-actin assembly and disassembly by Mical, Science 334 (2011) 1710–1713.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Barra, P. Contucci, R. Sandell, C. Vernia, An analysis of a large dataset on immigrant integration in Spain. The statistical mechanics perspective on social action, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4174.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Schoukens, R. Pintelon, Y. Rolain, Mastering System Identification in 100 Exercises, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

S. Sandhu, S. McKenzie, H. Harris, eds., Linking Local and Global Sustainability, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Benzaouia, A. Hmamed, F. Tadeo, Delay-Dependent Stabilization of Two-Dimensional Delayed Systems with Saturating Control, in: A. Hmamed, F. Tadeo (Eds.), Two-Dimensional Systems: From Introduction to State of the Art, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 75–109.

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 Computational and Applied Mathematics.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, We Just Got An Amazing View Of A Huge Lava Lake On Jupiter’s Moon Io, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/space/we-just-got-an-amazing-view-of-a-huge-lava-lake-on-jupiters-moon-io/ (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, Strategic Airlift: Improvements in C-5 Mission Capability Can Help Meet Airlift Requirements, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E. Aggarwal, South Asian women’s attitudes toward help-seeking behaviors, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

G. Vecsey, Truth Lurks In Spoof Of Singletary, New York Times (2010) B8.

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 Computational and Applied Mathematics
Abbreviation	J. Comput. Appl. Math.
ISSN (print)	0377-0427
Scope	Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics