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]

R. Dalton, Threat of closure hangs heavy over primate centre, Nature. 423 (2003) 471.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.E. Yack, J.H. Fullard, Ultrasonic hearing in nocturnal butterflies, Nature. 403 (2000) 265–266.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N. Ishizawa, H. Setoguchi, K. Yanagisawa, Structural evolution of calcite at high temperatures: phase V unveiled, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2832.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

X. Wang, X. Li, L. Zhang, Y. Yoon, P.K. Weber, H. Wang, J. Guo, H. Dai, N-doping of graphene through electrothermal reactions with ammonia, Science. 324 (2009) 768–771.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Blair, J.M. Regenstein, Genetic Modification and Food Quality, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

S.T. Acuña, N. Juristo, eds., Software Process Modeling, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R.C.-W. Phan, J.N. Whitley, D.J. Parish, Adversarial Security: Getting to the Root of the Problem, in: J. Camenisch, V. Kisimov, M. Dubovitskaya (Eds.), Open Research Problems in Network Security: IFIP WG 11.4 International Workshop, INetSec 2010, Sofia, Bulgaria, March 5-6, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 47–55.

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, New Baby Dinosaur Fossil Reveals Cause of Death, IFLScience. (2013).

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, Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Federal Actions Needed to Ensure Safety and Expand Their Potential Uses within the National Airspace System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.N. Hasan, Design and optimization of 2012 Formula SAE chassis with finite element analysis for CSULB, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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.J. Lewis, The Art of War, New York Times. (2017) BR21.

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

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