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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

Murray TH. Genetics. Stirring the simmering “designer baby” pot. Science 2014;343:1208–10.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Makinoshima H, Glickman MS. Regulation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis cell envelope composition and virulence by intramembrane proteolysis. Nature 2005;436:406–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Wang J, Hannon GJ, Beach DH. Risky immortalization by telomerase. Nature 2000;405:755–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Boratyński Z, Lehmann P, Mappes T, Mousseau TA, Møller AP. Increased radiation from Chernobyl decreases the expression of red colouration in natural populations of bank voles (Myodes glareolus). Sci Rep 2014;4:7141.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Shinohara H, Tagmatarchis N. Endohedral Metallofullerenes. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Ochiai T, Mabuchi T, Maeda Y, Noguchi J, Weinstein A, editors. Geometry and Analysis on Manifolds: In Memory of Professor Shoshichi Kobayashi. vol. 308. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Arnoldi K. The Monofixation Syndrome: New Considerations on Pathophysiology. In: Lorenz B, Brodsky MC, editors. Pediatric Ophthalmology, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Genetics: Strabismus - New Concepts in Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 33–40.

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]

Andrew E. The Rise And Rise Of The 2015 El Niño. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/rise-and-rise-2015-el-ni-o/ (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. Space Acquisitions: Assessment of Overhead Persistent Infrared Technology Report. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Powell FM. A study of the effects of nanoparticle modification on the thermal, mechanical and hygrothermal performance of carbon/vinyl ester composites. Doctoral dissertation. Florida Atlantic 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]

Oestreich JR. Company for a Winter Journey. New York Times 2017:C6.

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