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]

Hutchings JA. Collapse and recovery of marine fishes. Nature. 2000;406:882–885.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Hyman SE, Fenton WS. Medicine. What are the right targets for psychopharmacology? Science. 2003;299:350–351.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Torre R, Bartolini P, Righini R. Structural relaxation in supercooled water by time-resolved spectroscopy. Nature. 2004;428:296–299.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Anandakrishnan S, Catania GA, Alley RB, et al. Discovery of till deposition at the grounding line of Whillans Ice Stream. Science. 2007;315:1835–1838.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Alberty RA. Enzyme Kinetics: Rapid-Equilibrium Enzyme Kinetics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

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Grandinetti L, Lippert T, Petkov N, editors. Brain-Inspired Computing: International Workshop, BrainComp 2013, Cetraro, Italy, July 8-11, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

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Popa VI, Stingu AP, Volf I. Lignins and Polyphenols in Bioremediation. In: Fulekar MH, editor. Bioremediation Technology: Recent Advances. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010. p. 100–134.

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

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Andrew D. One Of The Rarest Animals In The World Makes A Surprise Appearance. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Aviation Security: Posting Notices at Domestic Airports. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997. Report No.: RCED-97-88R. .

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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Malkus N. Beneath the district averages: Intradistrict differences in teacher compensation expenditures [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2012.

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

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Chan S. BBC Publishes Pay of Top Stars, Revealing Gender and Racial Gaps. New York Times. 2017 Jul 19;A9.

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