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]

D. Snoke, Spontaneous Bose coherence of excitons and polaritons, Science 298 (2002) 1368–1372.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.N. Kulkarni, C.R. Kahn, Molecular biology. HNFs--linking the liver and pancreatic islets in diabetes, Science 303 (2004) 1311–1312.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.R. Mugnier, G.A.M. Cross, F.N. Papavasiliou, The in vivo dynamics of antigenic variation in Trypanosoma brucei, Science 347 (2015) 1470–1473.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.P. Viana, E. Strano, P. Bordin, M. Barthelemy, The simplicity of planar networks, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3495.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.S. Kenett, S. Zacks, D. Amberti, Modern Industrial Statistics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

W.K. Härdle, Basics of Modern Mathematical Statistics: Exercises and Solutions, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B. Green, Being Muslim in the Neoliberal West: Reflections on an Ethnographic Study of Muslim Women in Australia, in: T. Lovat (Ed.), Women in Islam: Reflections on Historical and Contemporary Research, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2012: pp. 61–74.

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, Modifying Mosquitoes To Stop Transmission Of Dengue Fever, IFLScience (2016).

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, Telecommunications: German DTV Transition Differs from U.S. Transition in Many Respects, but Certain Key Challenges Are Similar, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.M. Jones, Educational paradigm shift: Emergence of the virtual classroom, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 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

[1]

M. Pilon, A Dominating Display at 14, New York Times (2014) B11.

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