How to format your references using the Pacific Journal of Mathematics for Industry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pacific Journal of Mathematics for Industry. 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

Pikitch, E.K.: Oceans. The risks of overfishing. Science. 338, 474–475 (2012)

A journal article with 2 authors

Seelig, J.D., Jayaraman, V.: Feature detection and orientation tuning in the Drosophila central complex. Nature. 503, 262–266 (2013)

A journal article with 3 authors

Schliekelman, P., Garner, C., Slatkin, M.: Natural selection and resistance to HIV. Nature. 411, 545–546 (2001)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Borneman, A.R., Gianoulis, T.A., Zhang, Z.D., Yu, H., Rozowsky, J., Seringhaus, M.R., Wang, L.Y., Gerstein, M., Snyder, M.: Divergence of transcription factor binding sites across related yeast species. Science. 317, 815–819 (2007)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mitra, A.: Fundamentals of Quality Control and Improvement. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2008)

An edited book

Bouvry, P., Kłopotek, M.A., Leprévost, F., Marciniak, M., Mykowiecka, A., Rybiński, H. eds: Security and Intelligent Information Systems: International Joint Conferences, SIIS 2011, Warsaw, Poland, June 13-14, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Paegelow, M., Camacho, M.T.O., Ferraty, F., Ferré, L., Sarda, P., Villa, N.: Prospective modelling of environmental dynamics: A methodological comparison applied to mountain land cover changes. In: Paegelow, M. and Olmedo, M.T.C. (eds.) Modelling Environmental Dynamics: Advances in Geomatic Solutions. pp. 141–167. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2008)

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 Pacific Journal of Mathematics for Industry.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Breast Cancer Risk Increases With Disrupted Sleep Cycles

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: Transportation Services: Better Dissemination and Oversight of DOT’s Guidance Could Lead to Improved Access for Limited English-Proficient Populations (Spanish Version). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2005)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bernstine, J.T.: Experiences of Students Transferring from Community and Technical Colleges to a Private Nonprofit University, (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

Dinardo, K.: Skin in the Game, (2014)

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	Pacific Journal of Mathematics for Industry
Abbreviation	Pac. J. Math. Ind.
ISSN (online)	2198-4115
Scope