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]

F.M. Orr Jr, Onshore geologic storage of CO2, Science 325 (2009) 1656–1658.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N. Masataka, L. Perlovsky, Cognitive interference can be mitigated by consonant music and facilitated by dissonant music, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2028.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.E. Jackson, M. Holcombe, F.L.W. Ratnieks, Trail geometry gives polarity to ant foraging networks, Nature 432 (2004) 907–909.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

X. Xu, D. Huang, K. Cao, M. Wang, S.M. Zakeeruddin, M. Grätzel, Electrochemically reduced graphene oxide multilayer films as efficient counter electrode for dye-sensitized solar cells, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1489.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T.R. Robinson, Genetics for Dummies®, Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

M.M. Carreiro, Y.-C. Song, J. Wu, eds., Ecology, Planning, and Management of Urban Forests: International Perspectives, Springer, New York, NY, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G.B. Iwasokun, O.C. Akinyokun, C.O. Angaye, Spatial Relation Approach to Fingerprint Matching, in: L. Chen, S. Kapoor, R. Bhatia (Eds.), Intelligent Systems for Science and Information: Extended and Selected Results from the Science and Information Conference 2013, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 87–110.

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]

J. O`Callaghan, Scientists Develop Ice Cream That Doesn’t Melt In The Heat, IFLScience (2015).

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, Education and Employment Issue Area--Active Assignments, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K.J. McKinley, Exploring the efficiency and effectiveness of teacher selection tools: The effects on the total group with a focus on the experience sub-groups, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 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]

M.S. Hammond, The Art of Passing for Them, New York Times (2013) BR27.

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