How to format your references using the Integral Transforms and Special Functions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Integral Transforms and Special Functions. 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

[1]

Chapman CR. Meteorites. The long trip to Earth. Nature. 2000;407(6804):573, 575–576.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Mettetal JT, van Oudenaarden A. Microbiology. Necessary noise. Science. 2007;317(5837):463–464.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

De Pontieu B, Erdélyi R, James SP. Solar chromospheric spicules from the leakage of photospheric oscillations and flows. Nature. 2004;430(6999):536–539.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Engert F, Tao HW, Zhang LI, et al. Moving visual stimuli rapidly induce direction sensitivity of developing tectal neurons. Nature. 2002;419(6906):470–475.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Nicu L, Leïchlé T. Micro- and Nanoelectromechanical Biosensors. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Pham PV, editor. Stem Cell Processing. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Teichler U. Commentary on Chapter 2. In: Ibarrola M de, Anderson LW, editors. The Nurturing of New Educational Researchers: Dialogues and Debates. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2014. p. 57–63.

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 Integral Transforms and Special Functions.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. Humans Are Still Evolving But In Ways That Might Surprise You [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/humans-are-still-evolving-but-in-ways-that-might-surprise-you/.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Surface Transportation: Restructured Federal Approach Needed for More Focused, Performance-Based, and Sustainable Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008. Report No.: GAO-08-400. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Cong M. Predictive models of cytotoxicity as mediated by exposure to environmental toxicants and drugs [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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

[1]

Herrman J. Online platforms annexed much of our public sphere, playacting as little democracies — until extremists made them reveal their true nature. New York Times. 2017 Aug 21;MM18.

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	Integral Transforms and Special Functions
Abbreviation	Integral Transforms Spec. Funct.
ISSN (print)	1065-2469
ISSN (online)	1476-8291
Scope	Analysis Applied Mathematics