How to format your references using the IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IMA Journal of 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	Download the output style file
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

Barabási, A.-L. (2005) The origin of bursts and heavy tails in human dynamics. Nature, 435, 207–211.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tomasello, M. & Call, J. (2011) Methodological challenges in the study of primate cognition. Science, 334, 1227–1228.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ehebauer, M., Hayward, P., & Arias, A.M. (2006) Notch, a universal arbiter of cell fate decisions. Science, 314, 1414–1415.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Snow, M., Cox, S.-L., Jenkin, G., Trounson, A., & Shaw, J. (2002) Generation of live young from xenografted mouse ovaries. Science, 297, 2227.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scott, D.M. (2009) World Wide Rave. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kothari, V. (2015) Proceedings of the 1982 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference. , Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Singh, R.B. & Singh, S. (2014) Human-Induced Biome and Livelihood Security. Livelihood Security in Northwestern Himalaya: Case Studies from Changing Socio-economic Environments in Himachal Pradesh, India, Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences (Singh, R.B. & Hietala, R. eds). Tokyo: Springer Japan, pp. 53–66.

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 IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016) Study Suggests That Some Forms Of Autism May Not Just Affect The Brain. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/study-suggests-that-some-forms-of-autism-may-not-just-affect-the-brain/.

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 (2007) Drug Testing: Undercover Tests Reveal Significant Vulnerabilities in DOT’s Drug Testing Program ( No. GAO-08-225T). 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

Bhavsar, K.S. (2017) Application of wavelet on quasi-periodic physiologic signals (Doctoral dissertation).

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

Williams, J. (2017) Ruminations on the Inquiring Mind. New York Times, C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Barabási, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Barabási, 2005; Tomasello & Call, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Tomasello & Call, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Snow et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics
Abbreviation	IMA J Appl Math
ISSN (print)	0272-4960
ISSN (online)	1464-3634
Scope	Applied Mathematics