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

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

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A.M. Kilpatrick, Globalization, land use, and the invasion of West Nile virus, Science 334 (2011) 323–327.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.W. Oppo, Y. Rosenthal, Oceans. The great Indo-Pacific communicator, Science 328 (2010) 1492–1494.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G. Gnone, T. Moriconi, G. Gambini, Sleep behaviour: activity and sleep in dolphins, Nature 441 (2006) E10-1; discussion E11.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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M.J. Chacron, B. Doiron, L. Maler, A. Longtin, J. Bastian, Non-classical receptive field mediates switch in a sensory neuron’s frequency tuning, Nature 423 (2003) 77–81.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Z.-J. Shi, Homogeneous Catalysis for Unreactive Bond Activation, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

R. Valenta, R.L. Coffman, eds., Vaccines against Allergies, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

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D. Sehgal, S.N. Raina, Carthamus, in: C. Kole (Ed.), Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Oilseeds, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 63–95.

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 Pure and Applied Algebra.

Blog post

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E. Andrew, Marriage of Ancient and Modern Makes Rosetta Mission a True Space Odyssey, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/space/marriage-ancient-and-modern-makes-rosetta-mission-true-space-odyssey/ (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

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Government Accountability Office, Career Education: Status and Needed Improvements, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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M. Zohourian, Supply Chain Decision Making Under Demand Uncertainty and the Use of Control Systems: A Correlational Study, Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, 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

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L. Saslow, N. Neroulias, School Districts Gird For Bad-News Budgets, New York Times (2009) LI1.

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 Pure and Applied Algebra
Abbreviation	J. Pure Appl. Algebra
ISSN (print)	0022-4049
Scope	Algebra and Number Theory