How to format your references using the IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IMA Journal of Numerical 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	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

Bohannon, J. (2008) The Gonzo Scientist. Play it again, robot. Science, 319, 1613.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sekiya, S. & Suzuki, A. (2011) Direct conversion of mouse fibroblasts to hepatocyte-like cells by defined factors. Nature, 475, 390–393.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaminski, J.A., Sloutsky, V.M., & Heckler, A.F. (2008) Learning theory. The advantage of abstract examples in learning math. Science, 320, 454–455.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Levy, O., Appelbaum, L., Leggat, W., Gothlif, Y., Hayward, D.C., Miller, D.J., & Hoegh-Guldberg, O. (2007) Light-responsive cryptochromes from a simple multicellular animal, the coral Acropora millepora. Science, 318, 467–470.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nellist, J.G. (2005) Understanding Telecommunications and Lightwave Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Aston, P.J., Mulholland, A.J., & Tant, K.M.M. (2016) UK Success Stories in Industrial Mathematics, 1st ed. 2016 ed. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Griebling, T.L. (2014) Frailty. Geriatric Urology (Griebling, T.L. ed). New York, NY: Springer, pp. 47–54.

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 Numerical Analysis.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014) Bizarre Cloud Formation Spotted In Australian Skies. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/stunning-cloud-formation-spotted-australian-skies/.

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 (1995) University Research: U.S. Reimbursement of Tuition Costs for University Employee Family Members ( No. NSIAD-95-19). 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

Guiltinan, E. (2012) Characterizing well connectivity in fractured bedrock using periodic hydraulic tests (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

Lesch, D.W. & Gelvin, J. (2017) What has Assad won? New York Times, A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bohannon, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Bohannon, 2008; Sekiya & Suzuki, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Sekiya & Suzuki, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Levy et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis
Abbreviation	IMA J. Numer. Anal.
ISSN (print)	0272-4979
ISSN (online)	1464-3642
Scope	General Mathematics Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics