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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of 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	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.F. Cook, Materials science. Probing the nanoscale, Science 328 (2010) 183–184.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T.J.G. Ettema, S.G.E. Andersson, Comment on “A 3-hydroxypropionate/4-hydroxybutyrate autotrophic carbon dioxide assimilation pathway in Archaea,” Science 321 (2008) 342; author reply 342.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Alexandre, A. Baena-Lopez, J.-P. Vincent, Patterning and growth control by membrane-tethered Wingless, Nature 505 (2014) 180–185.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B.A. Potter, A.B. Beaudoin, C.V. Haynes, V.T. Holliday, C.E. Holmes, J.W. Ives, R. Kelly, B. Llamas, R. Malhi, S. Miller, D. Reich, J.D. Reuther, S. Schiffels, T. Surovell, Arrival routes of first Americans uncertain, Science 359 (2018) 1224–1225.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S.K. Jayaweera, Signal Processing for Cognitive Radios, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

D. Simchi-Levi, The Logic of Logistics: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications for Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Second Edition, Springer, New York, NY, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Sandau, Structure of a Digital Airborne Camera, in: R. Sandau (Ed.), Digital Airborne Camera: Introduction and Technology, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2010: pp. 143–259.

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 Computational and Applied Mathematics.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, What Would Happen If Humans Suddenly Disappeared From The Planet?, IFLScience (2016).

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, Aviation Safety: FAA Needs to Update Curriculum and Certification Requirements for Aviation Mechanics, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.A. Nolan, Ecopoetry and ecocentrism: The poetics of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

I.B. Jones, Article 8 -- No Title, New York Times (1903) The New York Times SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKS AND ARTBR10.

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 Computational and Applied Mathematics
Abbreviation	J. Comput. Appl. Math.
ISSN (print)	0377-0427
Scope	Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics