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

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C.L. Bennett, Astrophysical observations: lensing and eclipsing Einstein’s theories, Science 307 (2005) 879–884.

A journal article with 2 authors

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A.L. Fairchild, R. Bayer, Public health. Ethics and the conduct of public health surveillance, Science 303 (2004) 631–632.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

I.-H. Lee, S. Shin, T.-L. Choi, Materials science. Building supermicelles from simple polymers, Science 347 (2015) 1310–1311.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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J. Wu, J. Xu, B. Liu, G. Yao, P. Wang, Z. Lin, B. Huang, X. Wang, T. Li, S. Shi, N. Zhang, F. Duan, J. Ming, X. Zhang, W. Niu, W. Song, H. Jin, Y. Guo, S. Dai, L. Hu, L. Fang, Q. Wang, Y. Li, W. Li, J. Na, W. Xie, Y. Sun, Publisher Correction: Chromatin analysis in human early development reveals epigenetic transition during ZGA, Nature 560 (2018) E27.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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D.W. Jones, Economic Theory and the Ancient Mediterranean, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

V. Dickerson, ed., Poststructural and Narrative Thinking in Family Therapy, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S.G. Kim, Variations in Outcome of Endodontic Surgery, in: I. Tsesis (Ed.), Complications in Endodontic Surgery: Prevention, Identification and Management, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014: pp. 39–51.

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

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J. O`Callaghan, New Tool Increases Battery Life Of Phones By 16%, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/hush-software-increases-battery-life-android-phones-16/ (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

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Government Accountability Office, Space Communications: Better Understanding of Scheduling System Limitations Needed, 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

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S.S. Sahib, Numerical solutions of Maxwell’s equations in 1D, 2D, and 3D via the finite element method, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

N. George, Black-and-White Struggle With a Rosy Glow, New York Times (2011) AR1.

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