How to format your references using the Lettera Matematica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Lettera Matematica. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Kerr, R.A.: PALEOCLIMATE: An Appealing Snowball Earth That’s Still Hard to Swallow. Science. 287, 1734–1736 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Sharma, A., Hartwig, J.F.: Metal-catalysed azidation of tertiary C-H bonds suitable for late-stage functionalization. Nature. 517, 600–604 (2015)

A journal article with 3 authors

González, M.C., Hidalgo, C.A., Barabási, A.-L.: Understanding individual human mobility patterns. Nature. 453, 779–782 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lin, J.-F., Wu, J., Zhu, J., Mao, Z., Said, A.H., Leu, B.M., Cheng, J., Uwatoko, Y., Jin, C., Zhou, J.: Abnormal elastic and vibrational behaviors of magnetite at high pressures. Sci. Rep. 4, 6282 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anthony, B., Boudnik, K., Adams, C., Shao, B., Lee, C., Sasaki, K.: Professional Hadoop®. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Indianapolis, IN, USA (2016)

An edited book

Pelliccia, A. ed: Sports Cardiology Casebook. Springer, London (2009)

A chapter in an edited book

Lagorio, S.L., Vizán, H., Geuna, S.E.: Geodynamical Setting for the Tholeiites of Misiones Province (North-eastern Argentina) in the Context of the PMP and the Alkaline Volcanism of Córdoba Province (Central Argentina). In: Vizán, H. and Geuna, S.E. (eds.) Early Cretaceous Volcanism in Central and Eastern Argentina During Gondwana Break-Up. pp. 129–135. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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 Lettera Matematica.

Blog post

Hamilton, K.: Global Warming To Expose More People To Zika-Spreading Mosquito Aedes Aegypti

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: Information Technology: Further Improvements Needed to identify and Oversee Poorly Planned and Performing Projects. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2007)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bankapura, S.: Packet adaptive routing in communication network, (2016)

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

Ratliff, B.: Imagine Beckett as a Cranky Songwriter, (2016)

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	Lettera Matematica
ISSN (print)	2281-6917
ISSN (online)	2281-5937
Scope