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

Pennisi, E.: Primate evolution. Gene activity clocks brain’s fast evolution. Science. 296, 233–235 (2002)

A journal article with 2 authors

Ricklefs, R.E., Renner, S.S.: Global correlations in tropical tree species richness and abundance reject neutrality. Science. 335, 464–467 (2012)

A journal article with 3 authors

Bass, A.H., Gilland, E.H., Baker, R.: Evolutionary origins for social vocalization in a vertebrate hindbrain-spinal compartment. Science. 321, 417–421 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, Z., Gildersleeve, J., Yang, Y.-Y., Xu, R., Loo, J.A., Uryu, S., Wong, C.-H., Schultz, P.G.: A new strategy for the synthesis of glycoproteins. Science. 303, 371–373 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Datta, T.K.: Seismic Analysis of Structures. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2010)

An edited book

Gorodetskiy, A.E. ed: Smart Electromechanical Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Barkmann, J., Hillmann, B.M., Marggraf, R.: The Research Unit RU 816: Overall Approach in the Light of the Ecosystem Services Concept. In: Bendix, J., Beck, E., Bräuning, A., Makeschin, F., Mosandl, R., Scheu, S., and Wilcke, W. (eds.) Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity and Environmental Change in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of South Ecuador. pp. 41–49. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

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

Andrews, R.: Stunning Satellite Images Reveal The Story Of Earth’s Surface Water

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: DOD Major Automated Information Systems: Improvements Can Be Made in Applying Leading Practices for Managing Risk and Testing. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2017)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zhang, G.: Roles of serotonin 2A receptor in a serotonin syndrome, (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

Villarosa, L.: Done Right, Colonoscopy Takes Time, Study Finds, (2006)

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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