How to format your references using the Pacific Journal of Mathematics for Industry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pacific Journal of Mathematics for Industry. 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

Sekercioglu, C.H.: Ecology. Functional extinctions of bird pollinators cause plant declines. Science. 331, 1019–1020 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Kuriyan, J., Eisenberg, D.: The origin of protein interactions and allostery in colocalization. Nature. 450, 983–990 (2007)

A journal article with 3 authors

Saper, C.B., Scammell, T.E., Lu, J.: Hypothalamic regulation of sleep and circadian rhythms. Nature. 437, 1257–1263 (2005)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Meiri, M., Huchon, D., Bar-Oz, G., Boaretto, E., Horwitz, L.K., Maeir, A.M., Sapir-Hen, L., Larson, G., Weiner, S., Finkelstein, I.: Ancient DNA and population turnover in southern levantine pigs--signature of the sea peoples migration? Sci. Rep. 3, 3035 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Packard, A.: Digital Media Law. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK (2010)

An edited book

Dhiman, R.: Compact Models and Performance Investigations for Subthreshold Interconnects. Springer India, New Delhi (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Zhou, J., Wang, R., Jin, C., Yan, D.: Multiple MP3 Compression Detection Based on the Statistical Properties of Scale Factors. In: Shi, Y.-Q., Kim, H.J., Pérez-González, F., and Echizen, I. (eds.) Digital-Forensics and Watermarking: 14th International Workshop, IWDW 2015, Tokyo, Japan, October 7-10, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. pp. 51–60. 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 Pacific Journal of Mathematics for Industry.

Blog post

Andrew, D.: Lost In Translation: Five Common English Phrases You May Be Using Incorrectly

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: Supplemental Student Loans: Who Are the Largest Lenders? U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1990)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ambaw, Y.: Promoting the well-being of black student athletes: A grant proposal, (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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by: Arts, Briefly; Returning Seized Art, (2005)

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	Pacific Journal of Mathematics for Industry
Abbreviation	Pac. J. Math. Ind.
ISSN (online)	2198-4115
Scope