How to format your references using the Stochastic Partial Differential Equations: Analysis and Computations citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Stochastic Partial Differential Equations: Analysis and Computations. 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

Silk, J.B.: Animal behaviour: The evolutionary roots of lethal conflict. Nature. 513, 321–322 (2014)

A journal article with 2 authors

Yashin, V.V., Balazs, A.C.: Pattern formation and shape changes in self-oscillating polymer gels. Science. 314, 798–801 (2006)

A journal article with 3 authors

Arnqvist, G., Jones, T.M., Elgar, M.A.: Insect behaviour: reversal of sex roles in nuptial feeding. Nature. 424, 387 (2003)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Deng, Y., Yu, Y., Song, Y., Zhang, J., Wang, N.Z., Sun, Z., Yi, Y., Wu, Y.Z., Wu, S., Zhu, J., Wang, J., Chen, X.H., Zhang, Y.: Gate-tunable room-temperature ferromagnetism in two-dimensional Fe3GeTe2. Nature. 563, 94–99 (2018)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Safonov, V.O.: Trustworthy Cloud Computing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ (2016)

An edited book

Arvanitopoulos, C., Botsiou, K.E. eds: The Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Yearbook 2010. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2010)

A chapter in an edited book

Manfrino, R.B., Ortega, J.A.G., Delgado, R.V.: Complex Numbers. In: Gómez Ortega, J.A. and Valdez Delgado, R. (eds.) Topics in Algebra and Analysis: Preparing for the Mathematical Olympiad. pp. 75–88. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

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 Stochastic Partial Differential Equations: Analysis and Computations.

Blog post

Carpineti, A.: Gravitational Wave Observatory In Space Will See The Seed Of Supermassive Black Holes

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: Month In Review, July 1999: Reports, Testimony, Correspondence, and Other Publications. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1999)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Krishnan, R.: Generalized Conditional Matching Algorithm for Ordered and Unordered Sets, (2014)

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

Sorkin, A.R., de la MERCED, M.J., Thomas, K.: As Amazon Looms, CVS Eyes Aetna For Big Buy, (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	Stochastic Partial Differential Equations: Analysis and Computations
ISSN (print)	2194-0401
ISSN (online)	2194-041X
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