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

Marchant, J. Consider All the Evidence on Alternative Therapies. Nature 2015, 526, 295.

A journal article with 2 authors

Suster, M.L.; Bate, M. Embryonic Assembly of a Central Pattern Generator without Sensory Input. Nature 2002, 416, 174–178.

A journal article with 3 authors

Obata, Y.; Kono, T.; Hatada, I. Gene Silencing: Maturation of Mouse Fetal Germ Cells in Vitro. Nature 2002, 418, 497.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Turnbaugh, P.J.; Ley, R.E.; Mahowald, M.A.; Magrini, V.; Mardis, E.R.; Gordon, J.I. An Obesity-Associated Gut Microbiome with Increased Capacity for Energy Harvest. Nature 2006, 444, 1027–1031.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schulman, F.Y. Veterinarian’s Guide to Maximizing Biopsy Results; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Chichester, UK, 2016; ISBN 9781119226260.

An edited book

From Nano to Space: Applied Mathematics Inspired by Roland Bulirsch; Breitner, M.H., Denk, G., Rentrop, P., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008; ISBN 9783540742371.

A chapter in an edited book

Goeman, J.J. Randomness and the Games of Science. In The Challenge of Chance: A Multidisciplinary Approach from Science and the Humanities; Landsman, K., van Wolde, E., Eds.; The Frontiers Collection; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 91–109 ISBN 9783319262987.

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

Andrew, D. Elon Musk Says We’re Probably Living In A Computer Simulation – Here’s The Science Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/elon-musk-says-were-probably-living-in-a-computer-simulation-heres-the-science/ (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 Troops-To-Teachers: Program Brings More Men and Minorities to the Teaching Workforce, but Education Could Improve Management to Enhance Results; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2006;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Raines, J.R. Exploring Differences in Teacher Attitudes and Instructional Strategies between Traditional and Block Schedule High Schools: A Comparison of Two Large Schools. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University: St. Charles, MO, 2010.

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

Wagner, J. Syndergaard Has to Take Mets’ Offer. New York Times 2017, D5.

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