How to format your references using the Results in Applied Mathematics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Results in Applied Mathematics. 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

[1]

Buffett BA. Geophysics. The enigmatic inner core. Science 2010;328:982–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hannisdal B, Peters SE. Phanerozoic Earth system evolution and marine biodiversity. Science 2011;334:1121–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Morales R, Di Matteo T, Aste T. Dependency structure and scaling properties of financial time series are related. Sci Rep 2014;4:4589.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Fabrizio P, Pozza F, Pletcher SD, Gendron CM, Longo VD. Regulation of longevity and stress resistance by Sch9 in yeast. Science 2001;292:288–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Staudt G. Experimentalphysik. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2001.

An edited book

[1]

Nakhleh RE, editor. Error Reduction and Prevention in Surgical Pathology. New York, NY: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Beck MB, Lin Z, Stigter JD. Model Structure Identification and the Growth of Knowledge. In: Wang L, Garnier H, editors. System Identification, Environmental Modelling, and Control System Design, London: Springer; 2012, p. 69–96.

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 Results in Applied Mathematics.

Blog post

[1]

Evans K. Mexican Government Teams Up With Leonardo DiCaprio In Last-Ditch Effort To Save Vaquita. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/mexican-government-teams-up-with-leonardo-dicaprio-in-lastditch-effort-to-save-vaquita/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Biotechnology: Delays in and Status of EPA’s Efforts to Issue a TSCA Regulation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Knight M. Technological Advancement in Conflict Assessment: A Case Study of the Fund for Peace’s Universal Network of Local Knowledge in Liberia. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2012.

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

[1]

Sisario B. Revamped Streaming Services Plan to Gauge the Value of Music in the Internet Age. 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	Results in Applied Mathematics
ISSN (print)	2590-0374
Scope