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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Linear and Multilinear 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]

McDowell N. Joint European plan will tackle Africa’s killer diseases. Nature. 2003;421(6918):5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Freeman AS, Byers JE. Divergent induced responses to an invasive predator in marine mussel populations. Science. 2006;313(5788):831–833.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Larsen RE, Glover WJ, Schwartz BJ. Does the hydrated electron occupy a cavity? Science. 2010;329(5987):65–69.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Mellman DL, Gonzales ML, Song C, et al. A PtdIns4,5P2-regulated nuclear poly(A) polymerase controls expression of select mRNAs. Nature. 2008;451(7181):1013–1017.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Stirling E. Valuing Older People. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Aspray W. Formal and Informal Approaches to Food Policy. Royer G, Ocepek MG, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sukhorebra S. Current State in the Field of Persistent Organic Pollutants Management in Ukraine. In: Bahadir AM, Duca G, editors. The Role of Ecological Chemistry in Pollution Research and Sustainable Development. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009. p. 47–54.

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 and Multilinear Algebra.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Dear Parents, You Are Being Lied To [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dear-parents-you-are-being-lied-0/.

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. Commercial Fishing Vessel: Administration of the Colintino Rose II Loan Guarantee. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989. Report No.: RCED-89-105. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Prejean KD. An Analysis of Corporal Punishment Practices in Texas Public Schools: Race, School District Size, Academic Performance, and Policy Influences [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2015.

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]

Higgins A. A Trail of Masterpieces and a Web of Lies, Leading to Anguish. New York Times. 2013 Jul 27;A1.

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 and Multilinear Algebra
Abbreviation	Linear Multilinear Algebra
ISSN (print)	0308-1087
ISSN (online)	1563-5139
Scope	Algebra and Number Theory