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]

M.A. Stocking, Tropical soils and food security: the next 50 years, Science 302 (2003) 1356–1359.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.N. Pelton, J. Logsdon, Retrospective. Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008), Science 320 (2008) 189.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. Sang, H.A. Coller, J.M. Roberts, Control of the reversibility of cellular quiescence by the transcriptional repressor HES1, Science 321 (2008) 1095–1100.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

N.M. Shapiro, M.H. Ritzwoller, P. Molnar, V. Levin, Thinning and flow of Tibetan crust constrained by seismic anisotropy, Science 305 (2004) 233–236.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Qu, Manufacturing and Managing Customer-Driven Derivatives, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

V.A. Erdmann, S. Jurga, J. Barciszewski, eds., RNA and DNA Diagnostics, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Jones, J.F. Woglom, Overcoming Nomos, in: J.F. Woglom (Ed.), On Mutant Pedagogies: Seeking Justice and Drawing Change in Teacher Education, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2016: pp. 49–69.

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]

E. Andrew, Meet The Parasites That Turn Their Hosts Into Zombies, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/parasites-turn-their-hosts-zombies/ (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, Information Technology: Immigration and Customs Enforcement Is Beginning to Address Infrastructure Modernization Program Weaknesses but Key Improvements Still Needed, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.R. Teater, Reentry and reintegration: A grant proposal for formerly incarcerated women, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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]

J. Wagner, New Cure for Ailing Mets: Taking 2 Bases, New York Times (2017) B12.

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