How to format your references using the Linear Algebra and Its Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Linear Algebra and Its Applications. 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]

G.J. Lyon, Personalized medicine: Bring clinical standards to human-genetics research, Nature 482 (2012) 300–301.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Clarke, F.K. Wilhelm, Superconducting quantum bits, Nature 453 (2008) 1031–1042.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.S. Senn, J.P. Wright, J.P. Attfield, Charge order and three-site distortions in the Verwey structure of magnetite, Nature 481 (2011) 173–176.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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T. Shinada, S. Okamoto, T. Kobayashi, I. Ohdomari, Enhancing semiconductor device performance using ordered dopant arrays, Nature 437 (2005) 1128–1131.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

X. Gu, N. Jiang, K. Ji, H. Li, X. Qiu, W. Li, X. Ji, H. Du, B. Sheng, H. Huang, Self-healing Control Technology for Distribution Networks, John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

K. North, G. Varvakis, eds., Competitive Strategies for Small and Medium Enterprises: Increasing Crisis Resilience, Agility and Innovation in Turbulent Times, 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

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A. Zaidi, Covering Faith-Based Violence: Structure and Semantics of News Reporting in Pakistan, in: J. Syed, E. Pio, T. Kamran, A. Zaidi (Eds.), Faith-Based Violence and Deobandi Militancy in Pakistan, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016: pp. 93–132.

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 Linear Algebra and Its Applications.

Blog post

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E. Andrew, Old World Monkey Brains may Have Evolved Complexity Before Size, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/old-world-monkey-brains-may-have-evolved-complexity-size/ (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, Low-Income and Minority Serving Institutions: Sustained Attention Needed to Improve Education’s Oversight of Grant Programs, 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

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D.K. Clark, Professional values: A study of education and experience in nursing students and nurses, Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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]

J. Hodgman, Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgeman, New York Times (2017) MM24.

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	Linear Algebra and Its Applications
Abbreviation	Linear Algebra Appl.
ISSN (print)	0024-3795
Scope	Algebra and Number Theory Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics Geometry and Topology Numerical Analysis