How to format your references using the Mathematical and Computational Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mathematical and Computational 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	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

Combes, S.A. Neuroscience: Dragonflies Predict and Plan Their Hunts. Nature 2015, 517, 279–280.

A journal article with 2 authors

Klitzman, R.; Appelbaum, P.S. Research Ethics. To Protect Human Subjects, Review What Was Done, Not Proposed. Science 2012, 335, 1576–1577.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mason, G.J.; Cooper, J.; Clarebrough, C. Frustrations of Fur-Farmed Mink. Nature 2001, 410, 35–36.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schenkl, S.; van Mourik, F.; van der Zwan, G.; Haacke, S.; Chergui, M. Probing the Ultrafast Charge Translocation of Photoexcited Retinal in Bacteriorhodopsin. Science 2005, 309, 917–920.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ocic, O. Oil Refineries in the 21st Century; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, FRG, 2004; ISBN 9783527604142.

An edited book

Transactions on Computational Science IV: Special Issue on Security in Computing; Gavrilova, M.L., Tan, C.J.K., Moreno, E.D., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; Vol. 5430; ISBN 9783642010033.

A chapter in an edited book

Imoto, Y.; Horiguchi, S. Bringing a European Language Policy into a Japanese Educational Institution. In Foreign Language Education in Japan: Exploring Qualitative Approaches; Horiguchi, S., Imoto, Y., Poole, G.S., Eds.; SensePublishers: Rotterdam, 2015; pp. 65–83 ISBN 9789463003254.

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 Mathematical and Computational Applications.

Blog post

Hale, T. Artificial Intelligence Wins Almost $11,000 On Horse Bets Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/hive-mind-artificial-intelligence-wins-almost-11000-horse-bets/ (accessed on 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office Federal Student Loans: Education Needs to Improve Its Income-Driven Repayment Plan Budget Estimates; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2016;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shenasi, S.Y. The Roots of Music Therapy: Healing the Wounds of the Psyche. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute: Carpinteria, CA, 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

Kelly, C. When Hill Country Feels Too Much Like Shreveport. New York Times 2013, A23B.

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	Mathematical and Computational Applications
Abbreviation	Math. Comput. Appl.
ISSN (online)	2297-8747
Scope	General Engineering Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics