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

Bensaude-Vincent, B. Chemical Analysis. Nature 2001, 410, 415.

A journal article with 2 authors

Birch, H.M.; Clayton, J. Cell Biology: Close-up on Cell Biology. Nature 2007, 446, 937–940.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thompson, J.K.; Rainville, S.; Pritchard, D.E. Cyclotron Frequency Shifts Arising from Polarization Forces. Nature 2004, 430, 58–61.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Saha, R.; Verma, P.K.; Rakshit, S.; Saha, S.; Mayor, S.; Pal, S.K. Light Driven Ultrafast Electron Transfer in Oxidative Redding of Green Fluorescent Proteins. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 1580.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Steele, D. From Therapist to Coach; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2011; ISBN 9781118089965.

An edited book

Holodynski, M. Development of Emotions and Their Regulation: An Internalization Model; Friedlmeier, W., Ed.; Kluwer International Series in Outreach Scholarship; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2005; Vol. 8; ISBN 9780387232812.

A chapter in an edited book

Aladin, N.; Micklin, P.; Plotnikov, I. Biodiversity Of The Aral Sea And Its Importance To The Possible Ways Of Rehabilitating And Conserving Its Remnant Water Bodies. In Environmental Problems of Central Asia and their Economic, Social and Security Impacts; Qi, J., Evered, K.T., Eds.; NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2008; pp. 73–98 ISBN 9781402089596.

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, E. Neanderthals Confirmed to Have Buried Their Dead Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/neanderthals-confirmed-have-buried-their-dead/ (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 Rail Transportation: Federal Railroad Administration’s Safety Programs; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1998;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Subramanian, K. Mechanisms and Effect of Microstructure on High Temperature Deformation of Gamma-TiAl Based Alloys. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University: Columbus, OH, 2003.

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

Stewart, J.B. How to Mend the Tax Code to Close Trump’s Loopholes. New York Times 2016, B1.

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