How to format your references using the Set-Valued and Variational Analysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Set-Valued and Variational Analysis. 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

McCabe, H.: France may bid for fusion reactor. Nature. 406, 447 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Krabbenhoft, D.P., Sunderland, E.M.: Environmental science. Global change and mercury. Science. 341, 1457–1458 (2013)

A journal article with 3 authors

Green, S.A., Simoes-Costa, M., Bronner, M.E.: Evolution of vertebrates as viewed from the crest. Nature. 520, 474–482 (2015)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mori, M., Abegg, M.H., Gähwiler, B.H., Gerber, U.: A frequency-dependent switch from inhibition to excitation in a hippocampal unitary circuit. Nature. 431, 453–456 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Halloran, M., Thies, C.: The Social Media Handbook for Financial Advisors. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2012)

An edited book

Waigmann, E., Heinlein, M. eds: Viral Transport in Plants. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2007)

A chapter in an edited book

Fells, R., Prowse, P.: Negotiations in the Workplace: Overcoming the Problem of Asymmetry. In: Elgoibar, P., Euwema, M., and Munduate, L. (eds.) Building Trust and Constructive Conflict Management in Organizations. pp. 75–92. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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 Set-Valued and Variational Analysis.

Blog post

Fang, J.: Mystery of Death Valley’s Sliding Rocks Solved, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/mystery-death-valleys-sliding-rocks-solved/

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: Airline Deregulation: Addressing the Air Service Problems of Some Communities. 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

Copeland, E.J.: A grant proposal for individuals with severe mental illness, (2010)

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

Vecsey, G.: Goal for One Team Is Impossible Dream for the Other, (2011)

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	Set-Valued and Variational Analysis
Abbreviation	Set-Valued Var. Anal.
ISSN (print)	1877-0533
ISSN (online)	1877-0541
Scope	Analysis Applied Mathematics Geometry and Topology Numerical Analysis Statistics and Probability