How to format your references using the Numerische Mathematik citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Numerische Mathematik. 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

Goodman, S.: Pressure grows over US blood ban. Nature. 412, 467 (2001)

A journal article with 2 authors

McGuinness, L.P., Jelezko, F.: Quantum mechanics. Look but don’t touch the metals. Science. 347, 1073–1074 (2015)

A journal article with 3 authors

Nader, K., Schafe, G.E., Le Doux, J.E.: Fear memories require protein synthesis in the amygdala for reconsolidation after retrieval. Nature. 406, 722–726 (2000)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cantuti-Castelvetri, L., Fitzner, D., Bosch-Queralt, M., Weil, M.-T., Su, M., Sen, P., Ruhwedel, T., Mitkovski, M., Trendelenburg, G., Lütjohann, D., Möbius, W., Simons, M.: Defective cholesterol clearance limits remyelination in the aged central nervous system. Science. 359, 684–688 (2018)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ming, D., Glasser, D., Hildebrandt, D., Glasser, B., Metzer, M.: Attainable Region Theory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2016)

An edited book

Quirk, T.J.: Excel 2013 for Biological and Life Sciences Statistics: A Guide to Solving Practical Problems. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Neurath, O.: War Economy. In: Cohen, R.S. (ed.) Otto Neurath Economic Writings Selections 1904–1945. pp. 153–199. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2005)

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 Numerische Mathematik.

Blog post

Hale, T.: You Can Now Search Through 12 Million Pages Of Declassified CIA Files Online

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: Review of Certain Activities of the Florida School Desegregating Consulting Center. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1970)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jin, R.: Graph-Based Rhythm Interpretation in Optical Music Recognition, (2017)

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

Hollander, S.: On Way to Rout, Liberty Wins at the Free-Throw Line, (2000)

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	Numerische Mathematik
Abbreviation	Numer. Math. (Heidelb.)
ISSN (print)	0029-599X
ISSN (online)	0945-3245
Scope	Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics

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