How to format your references using the Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra citation style

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

P.W. Anderson, A Gross-Pitaevskii treatment for supersolid helium, Science. 324 (2009) 631–632.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N. Mellor, A. Bishopp, Plant science. The innermost secrets of root development, Science. 345 (2014) 622–623.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.J.O. Pocock, D.M. Evans, J. Memmott, The robustness and restoration of a network of ecological networks, Science. 335 (2012) 973–977.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Rietkerk, S.C. Dekker, P.C. de Ruiter, J. van de Koppel, Self-organized patchiness and catastrophic shifts in ecosystems, Science. 305 (2004) 1926–1929.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M.A. Weinberg, S.L. Segelnick, J.S. Insler, S. Kramer, The Dentist’s Quick Guide to Medical Conditions, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Q. Jiang, Stream Data Processing: A Quality of Service Perspective: Modeling, Scheduling, Load Shedding, and Complex Event Processing, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Shibusawa, T. Otsuka, T. Sugawara, Spread of Cooperation in Complex Agent Networks Based on Expectation of Cooperation, in: M. Baldoni, A.K. Chopra, T.C. Son, K. Hirayama, P. Torroni (Eds.), PRIMA 2016: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems: 19th International Conference, Phuket, Thailand, August 22-26, 2016, Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 76–91.

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 Pure and Applied Algebra.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Bee Fossils Shed Light On The Environment In The Late Pleistocene, IFLScience. (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bee-fossils-shed-light-environment-late-pleistocene/ (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, Proposal for Replacement of Indian Health Service Hospital, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Soltani, Parenting and disciplinary practices of Iranian mothers: A quantitative study, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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. Cooper, The Storming of Mount Salzburg, New York Times. (2017) AR8.

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 Pure and Applied Algebra
Abbreviation	J. Pure Appl. Algebra
ISSN (print)	0022-4049
Scope	Algebra and Number Theory