How to format your references using the Complex Analysis and Operator Theory citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Complex Analysis and Operator Theory. 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

Sridhar, D.: Health policy: Regulate alcohol for global health. Nature. 482, 302 (2012)

A journal article with 2 authors

Konstantinides, N., Averof, M.: A common cellular basis for muscle regeneration in arthropods and vertebrates. Science. 343, 788–791 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Barth, J.V., Costantini, G., Kern, K.: Engineering atomic and molecular nanostructures at surfaces. Nature. 437, 671–679 (2005)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Klie, R.F., Buban, J.P., Varela, M., Franceschetti, A., Jooss, C., Zhu, Y., Browning, N.D., Pantelides, S.T., Pennycook, S.J.: Enhanced current transport at grain boundaries in high-T(c) superconductors. Nature. 435, 475–478 (2005)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Staudt, G.: Experimentalphysik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany (2001)

An edited book

Kiefer, F., Schulte-Merker, S. eds: Developmental Aspects of the Lymphatic Vascular System. Springer, Vienna (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Ghosh, S., Joshi, A., Tripathi, S.: Empirical Evaluation of Multimodal Input Interactions. In: Yamamoto, S. (ed.) Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Interaction Design: 15th International Conference, HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part I. pp. 37–47. 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 Complex Analysis and Operator Theory.

Blog post

Fang, J.: Cod Collapse Linked To Rapidly Warming Gulf Waters, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cod-collapse-linked-rapidly-warming-gulf-waters/

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: Opportunities for Oversight and Improved Use of Taxpayer Funds: Examples from Selected GAO Work. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2003)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Vundavilli, R.: Bubble Removal in Microfluidic Devices Using Nanofibrous Membranes, (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

Cooper, M.: A Case That Reverberates In Inkblot-Like Districts, (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	Complex Analysis and Operator Theory
Abbreviation	Complex Anal. Oper. Theory
ISSN (print)	1661-8254
ISSN (online)	1661-8262
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics