How to format your references using the Journal of Algebra citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Algebra. 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]

R.C. Henry, The mental Universe, Nature 436 (2005) 29.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C.S. Nabel, R.M. Kohli, Molecular biology. Demystifying DNA demethylation, Science 333 (2011) 1229–1230.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Li, J. Matthews, A. Sinha, Atmospheric hydroxyl radical production from electronically excited NO2 and H2O, Science 319 (2008) 1657–1660.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

N. Agarwal, G. Lamichhane, R. Gupta, S. Nolan, W.R. Bishai, Cyclic AMP intoxication of macrophages by a Mycobacterium tuberculosis adenylate cyclase, Nature 460 (2009) 98–102.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W. Allsopp, Advanced Penetration Testing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

M.S. Sodhi, Managing Supply Chain Risk, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Kondo, Liquid Embolic Agents, in: D. Kessel, C. Ray (Eds.), Transcatheter Embolization and Therapy, Springer, London, 2009: pp. 51–59.

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 Journal of Algebra.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, Awesome Timelapse Shows You The Life Cycle Of A Butterfly, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/monarch-butterfly-larvae-finds-its-wings0/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, FAA Staffing: New Pay Act Offers Options to Bolster Maintenance Work Force, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.-S. Wei, Towards Brain Decoding for Real-World Drowsiness Detection, Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, 2017.

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]

J. Gorman, The Self-Aware Dog, New York Times (2017) D3.

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	Journal of Algebra
Abbreviation	J. Algebra
ISSN (print)	0021-8693
Scope	Algebra and Number Theory