How to format your references using the Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archive for Rational Mechanics and 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

Lipton, P.: Testing hypotheses: prediction and prejudice. Science. 307, 219–221 (2005)

A journal article with 2 authors

Flowers, R.M., Farley, K.A.: Response to Comments on “Apatite 4He/3He and (U-Th)/He Evidence for an Ancient Grand Canyon.” Science. 340, 143 (2013)

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, Y., Emerson, J.J., Martin, T.M.: Evolutionary genomics: codon volatility does not detect selection. Nature. 433, E6-7; discussion E7-8 (2005)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Peng, B., Ren, X., Wang, Z., Wang, X., Roberts, R.C., Chan, P.K.L.: High performance organic transistor active-matrix driver developed on paper substrate. Sci. Rep. 4, 6430 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hübschmann, H.-J.: Handbook of GC-MS. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany (2015)

An edited book

Mazzeo, A., Bellini, R., Motta, G. eds: E-Government Ict Professionalism and Competences Service Science. Springer US, Boston, MA (2008)

A chapter in an edited book

Kress, T.M.: Singing a Different Tune. In: Tobin, K. and Shady, A. (eds.) Transforming Urban Education: Urban Teachers and Students Working Collaboratively. pp. 53–69. SensePublishers, Rotterdam (2014)

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 Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis.

Blog post

Luntz, S.: Hunter-Gatherer Societies Have Three-Tiered Social Networks, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/hunter-gatherer-societies-have-three-tiered-social-networks/

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: Transportation Security Administration: TSA Executive Attrition Has Declined, but Better Information Is Needed on Reasons for Leaving and Executive Hiring Process. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2009)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mikhailik, Y.: Longing Limned, (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

de la MERCED, M.J., Bray, C.: Rite Aid Will Sell Some Stores to Walgreens, Ending Plans to Merge, (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	Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis
Abbreviation	Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal.
ISSN (print)	0003-9527
ISSN (online)	1432-0673
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mathematics (miscellaneous) Analysis