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

Johnson, K.: Astronomy. Infant globular clusters. Science. 297, 776–777 (2002)

A journal article with 2 authors

Campbell, E., Salathé, M.: Complex social contagion makes networks more vulnerable to disease outbreaks. Sci. Rep. 3, 1905 (2013)

A journal article with 3 authors

Parkin, S.S.P., Hayashi, M., Thomas, L.: Magnetic domain-wall racetrack memory. Science. 320, 190–194 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kaspar, B.K., Lladó, J., Sherkat, N., Rothstein, J.D., Gage, F.H.: Retrograde viral delivery of IGF-1 prolongs survival in a mouse ALS model. Science. 301, 839–842 (2003)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kracke, E.-A., Lodde, K.: Leitfaden Straßenbrücken. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany (2011)

An edited book

Luo, X., Reichl, T., Mirota, D., Soper, T. eds: Computer-Assisted and Robotic Endoscopy: First International Workshop, CARE 2014, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2014, Boston, MA, USA, September 18, 2014. Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Gulati, K., Khatri, S.P.: Accelerating Boolean Satisfiability on a Custom IC. In: Khatri, S.P. (ed.) Hardware Acceleration of EDA Algorithms: Custom ICs, FPGAs and GPUs. pp. 33–61. Springer US, Boston, MA (2010)

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

Andrew, D.: Stories Of Vaccine-Related Harms Are Influential, Even When People Don’t Believe Them

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: Highway Infrastructure: Federal Efforts to Strengthen Security Should Be Better Coordinated and Targeted on the Nation’s Most Critical Highway Infrastructure. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2009)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fernandes, J.M.: Physical and chemical properties of Jupiter’s north and south polar vortex revealed through mid-infrared imaging, (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

Wagner, J.: Venezuela Tops Italy in Marathon, (2017)

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