How to format your references using the Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing (AAECC). 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

Bourzac, K.: Electronics: Back to analogue. Nature. 483, S34-6 (2012)

A journal article with 2 authors

Halloran, M.E., Longini, I.M., Jr: Public health. Community studies for vaccinating schoolchildren against influenza. Science. 311, 615–616 (2006)

A journal article with 3 authors

Lukens, J.M., Leaird, D.E., Weiner, A.M.: A temporal cloak at telecommunication data rate. Nature. 498, 205–208 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jiang, S.-Y., Pi, D.-H., Heubeck, C., Frimmel, H., Liu, Y.-P., Deng, H.-L., Ling, H.-F., Yang, J.-H.: Early Cambrian ocean anoxia in South China. Nature. 459, E5-6; discussion E6 (2009)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weiss, J.: Handbook of Ion Chromatography. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany (2016)

An edited book

Lasaponara, R., Masini, N., Orefici, G. eds: The Ancient Nasca World: New Insights from Science and Archaeology. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Pawley, J.B.: Points, Pixels, and Gray Levels: Digitizing Image Data. In: Pawley, J.B. (ed.) Handbook Of Biological Confocal Microscopy. pp. 59–79. Springer US, Boston, MA (2006)

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 Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing.

Blog post

Fang, J.: Infant Burials In Alaska Hint At How People First Colonized The Americas, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/two-infant-burials-alaska-offer-hints-about-americas-first-colonists/

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: Consumers’ Location Data: Companies Take Steps to Protect Privacy, but Practices Are Inconsistent, and Risks May Not be Clear to Consumers. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2014)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Boyer, G.C.: Best Practices for Student Success on the ACT, (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

Otis, J.: ‘You Need to Change’: A Grandmother’s Words Help Turn a Life Around, (2016)

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	Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing
Abbreviation	Appl. Algebra Engrg. Comm. Comput.
ISSN (print)	0938-1279
ISSN (online)	1432-0622
Scope	Algebra and Number Theory Applied Mathematics