How to format your references using the Lettera Matematica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Lettera Matematica. 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

Jungkind, D.: Tech.Sight. Molecular testing for infectious disease. Science. 294, 1553–1555 (2001)

A journal article with 2 authors

Davis, C.C., Wurdack, K.J.: Host-to-parasite gene transfer in flowering plants: phylogenetic evidence from Malpighiales. Science. 305, 676–678 (2004)

A journal article with 3 authors

Olveczky, B.P., Baccus, S.A., Meister, M.: Segregation of object and background motion in the retina. Nature. 423, 401–408 (2003)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shalapour, S., Lin, X.-J., Bastian, I.N., Brain, J., Burt, A.D., Aksenov, A.A., Vrbanac, A.F., Li, W., Perkins, A., Matsutani, T., Zhong, Z., Dhar, D., Navas-Molina, J.A., Xu, J., Loomba, R., Downes, M., Yu, R.T., Evans, R.M., Dorrestein, P.C., Knight, R., Benner, C., Anstee, Q.M., Karin, M.: Erratum: Inflammation-induced IgA+ cells dismantle anti-liver cancer immunity. Nature. 552, 430 (2017)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Belfiore, L.A.: Transport Phenomena for Chemical Reactor Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2003)

An edited book

Denzler, J., Notni, G., Süße, H. eds: Pattern Recognition: 31st DAGM Symposium, Jena, Germany, September 9-11, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009)

A chapter in an edited book

Song, Y., Lei, M., Peng, X., Xu, W., Wu, W., Du, S.: In-vessel Components. In: Wu, W. and Du, S. (eds.) Tokamak Engineering Mechanics. pp. 99–158. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2014)

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 Lettera Matematica.

Blog post

Davis, J.: New Zealand Parrot Found To Display Contagious “Laughter,” https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-zealand-parrot-found-to-display-contagious-laughter/

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: Commercial Aviation: Consumers Could Benefit from Better Information about Airline-Imposed Fees and Refundability of Government-Imposed Taxes and Fees. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2010)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ryan, J.I.: Analysis of the role of the Jackson Prairie in prehistoric/protohistoric settlement patterns using survey data from the Bienville National Forest, (2017)

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

Rothenberg, B.: Bouchard Is Out, but Her Concussion Suit From the 2015 Open Goes On, (2016)

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	Lettera Matematica
ISSN (print)	2281-6917
ISSN (online)	2281-5937
Scope