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]

M. Przeworski, Genome-sequencing anniversary. The golden age of human population genetics, Science 331 (2011) 547.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

W.E. Bradshaw, C.M. Holzapfel, Climate change. Evolutionary response to rapid climate change, Science 312 (2006) 1477–1478.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.N. Fry, R. Sayaman, M.H. Dickinson, The aerodynamics of free-flight maneuvers in Drosophila, Science 300 (2003) 495–498.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Turra, A.B. Manzano, R.J.S. Dias, M.M. Mahiques, L. Barbosa, D. Balthazar-Silva, F.T. Moreira, Three-dimensional distribution of plastic pellets in sandy beaches: shifting paradigms, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4435.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Möller, Geotechnik, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

C. Gribben, S. Spurlock, eds., Puritans and Catholics in the Trans-Atlantic World 1600–1800, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Bonaccorsi, Volterra Equations Perturbed by a Gaussian Noise, in: R.C. Dalang, F. Russo, M. Dozzi (Eds.), Seminar on Stochastic Analysis, Random Fields and Applications V: Centro Stefano Franscini, Ascona, May 2005, Birkhäuser, Basel, 2008: pp. 37–55.

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 Linear Algebra and Its Applications.

Blog post

[1]

B. Taub, The Brain Mechanism Underlying Free Will Has Been Identified, IFLScience (2016).

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, Electronic Government: Federal Agencies Continue to Invest in Smart Card Technology, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E.S. Beck, Waging war with words: Idealized gender and Iberian chivalry, Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 2008.

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. Pilon, Skating’s New Scoring System Adds to Challenge for American Men, New York Times (2014) SP11.

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