How to format your references using the Journal of Inequalities and Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Inequalities and Applications. 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

Angerer, P.: Graduate journal: at the crossroads. Nature. 427, 270 (2004)

A journal article with 2 authors

Lister, A.M., Sher, A.V.: Evolution and dispersal of mammoths across the Northern Hemisphere. Science. 350, 805–809 (2015)

A journal article with 3 authors

Coumou, D., Driesner, T., Heinrich, C.A.: The structure and dynamics of mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal systems. Science. 321, 1825–1828 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gargett, A., Wells, J., Tejada-Martínez, A.E., Grosch, C.E.: Langmuir supercells: a mechanism for sediment resuspension and transport in shallow seas. Science. 306, 1925–1928 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Buchstaller, I.: Quotatives. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Oxford, UK (2013)

An edited book

Torquebiau, E. ed: Climate Change and Agriculture Worldwide. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Manna, M., Oro, E., Ruffolo, M., Alviano, M., Leone, N.: The H $\imath$ L ε X System for Semantic Information Extraction. In: Hameurlain, A., Küng, J., and Wagner, R. (eds.) Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems V. pp. 91–125. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012)

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 Inequalities and Applications.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Spectacular New Image Shows Planet Formation In Incredible Detail

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: FAA Information Resources: Agency Needs to Correct Widespread Deficiencies. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1991)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

DeSpain, L.: The relationship between police supervisor training and job satisfaction levels as reported by patrol officers, (2008)

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

Kishkovsky, S.: 2 Russian Churches, Split by War, Reuniting, (2007)

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 Inequalities and Applications
Abbreviation	J. Inequal. Appl.
ISSN (online)	1029-242X
Scope	Analysis Applied Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics