How to format your references using the Selecta Mathematica citation style

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

Visscher, P.M.: erratum: A viable herd of genetically uniform cattle. Nature. 410, 36 (2001)

A journal article with 2 authors

Richmond, B.G., Jungers, W.L.: Orrorin tugenensis femoral morphology and the evolution of hominin bipedalism. Science. 319, 1662–1665 (2008)

A journal article with 3 authors

Paredez, A.R., Somerville, C.R., Ehrhardt, D.W.: Visualization of cellulose synthase demonstrates functional association with microtubules. Science. 312, 1491–1495 (2006)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lai, Y.-K., Tang, Y.-X., Huang, J.-Y., Pan, F., Chen, Z., Zhang, K.-Q., Fuchs, H., Chi, L.-F.: Bioinspired TiO₂ nanostructure films with special wettability and adhesion for droplets manipulation and patterning. Sci. Rep. 3, 3009 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Svensson, H.: Cable-Stayed Bridges. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany (2012)

An edited book

Muthu, S.S., Gardetti, M.A. eds: Green Fashion: Volume 1. Springer, Singapore (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Kuri-Morales, A., Aldana-Bobadilla, E.: Finding Irregularly Shaped Clusters Based on Entropy. In: Perner, P. (ed.) Advances in Data Mining. Applications and Theoretical Aspects: 10th Industrial Conference, ICDM 2010, Berlin, Germany, July 12-14, 2010. Proceedings. pp. 57–70. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2010)

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 Selecta Mathematica.

Blog post

Evans, K.: Scientists Aim To Brew Beer On The Moon, https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-aim-to-brew-beer-on-the-moon/

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: Medicare Transaction System: Serious Managerial and Technical Weaknesses Threaten Modernization. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1997)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yahyai, S.: Optimization of a method for testing ballast water for enterococci and an investigation on the occurrence of antibiotic resistance in vibrio cholerae, (2013)

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

Oestreich, J.R.: Aiding and Abetting Operatic Dabblers, (2017)

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	Selecta Mathematica
Abbreviation	Sel. Math. New Ser.
ISSN (print)	1022-1824
ISSN (online)	1420-9020
Scope	General Mathematics General Physics and Astronomy