How to format your references using the Computational and Applied Mathematics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computational and Applied Mathematics. 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

Frommer WB (2010) Biochemistry. CO2mmon sense. Science 327:275–276

A journal article with 2 authors

Cole ST, Alzari PM (2005) Microbiology. TB--a new target, a new drug. Science 307:214–215

A journal article with 3 authors

Alapan Y, Little JA, Gurkan UA (2014) Heterogeneous red blood cell adhesion and deformability in sickle cell disease. Sci Rep 4:7173

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Barz S, Kassal I, Ringbauer M, et al (2014) A two-qubit photonic quantum processor and its application to solving systems of linear equations. Sci Rep 4:6115

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bowen C (2015) Children’s Speech Sound Disorders. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Waller MT (ed) (2016) Ethnoprimatology: Primate Conservation in the 21st Century. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Ashiuchi M (2010) Occurrence and Biosynthetic Mechanism of Poly-Gamma-Glutamic Acid. In: Hamano Y (ed) Amino-Acid Homopolymers Occurring in Nature. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 77–93

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 Computational and Applied Mathematics.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) People Are Freaking Out At This Apparent Time Traveler Filmed At A Mike Tyson Boxing Match In The ’90s. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/people-are-freaking-out-time-traveller-filmed-mike-tyson-boxing-match-nineties/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2010) Technology Assessment: Explosives Detection Technologies to Protect Passenger Rail. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Maitland J (2017) Differences in Perceived Organizational Justice Based Upon Overall Performance Appraisal Ratings. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Kenigsberg B (2017) 2017 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour. New York Times C10

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Frommer 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Cole and Alzari 2005; Frommer 2010).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Cole and Alzari 2005)
Three or more authors: (Barz et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Computational and Applied Mathematics
Abbreviation	Comput. Appl. Math.
ISSN (print)	0101-8205
ISSN (online)	1807-0302
Scope	Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics