How to format your references using the Axiomathes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Axiomathes. 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

Ackert RP Jr (2003) Glaciology. An ice sheet remembers. Science 299:57–58

A journal article with 2 authors

Striedter GF, Srinivasan S (2015) BRAIN EVOLUTION. Knowing when to fold them. Science 349:31–32

A journal article with 3 authors

Andreae MO, Jones CD, Cox PM (2005) Strong present-day aerosol cooling implies a hot future. Nature 435:1187–1190

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Meech KJ, Weryk R, Micheli M, et al (2017) A brief visit from a red and extremely elongated interstellar asteroid. Nature 552:378–381

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tagliamonte SA (2015) Making Waves. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Jests DV, Friedman JH (eds) (2006) Psychiatry for Neurologists. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ

A chapter in an edited book

Raz AE, Schicktanz S (2016) Making Responsible Life Plans: Cultural Differences in Lay Attitudes in Germany and Israel Towards Predictive Genetic Testing for Late-Onset Diseases. In: Schicktanz S (ed) Comparative Empirical Bioethics: Dilemmas of Genetic Testing and Euthanasia in Israel and Germany. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 55–66

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 Axiomathes.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) 7 Animals Saved From Near-Extinction. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/7-animals-saved-near-extinction/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2011) Nextgen Air Transportation System: Mechanisms for Collaboration and Technology Transfer Could Be Enhanced to More Fully Leverage Partner Agency and Industry Resources. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rodriguez PJ (2013) “Stepping stones”: Empowering mental health patients through connections with significant others: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Greenhouse L (2006) Justices’ First Brush With Global Warming. New York Times A23

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Ackert 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Ackert 2003; Striedter and Srinivasan 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Striedter and Srinivasan 2015)
Three or more authors: (Meech et al. 2017)

About the journal

Full journal title	Axiomathes
Abbreviation	Axiomathes
ISSN (print)	1122-1151
ISSN (online)	1572-8390
Scope	Philosophy Mathematics (miscellaneous)