How to format your references using the Communications in Mathematics and Statistics citation style

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

Robbins, M.: Policy: Fuelling politics. Nature. 474, S22-4 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Hébert, S.S., De Strooper, B.: Molecular biology. miRNAs in neurodegeneration. Science. 317, 1179–1180 (2007)

A journal article with 3 authors

Meng, J., Wang, Y., Li, C.: Transitional mammalian middle ear from a new Cretaceous Jehol eutriconodont. Nature. 472, 181–185 (2011)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Di Paolo, G., Pellegrini, L., Letinic, K., Cestra, G., Zoncu, R., Voronov, S., Chang, S., Guo, J., Wenk, M.R., De Camilli, P.: Recruitment and regulation of phosphatidylinositol phosphate kinase type 1 gamma by the FERM domain of talin. Nature. 420, 85–89 (2002)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Darbyshire, P., Hampton, D.: Hedge Fund Modelling and Analysis Using Excel and VBA. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, UK (2012)

An edited book

Gupta, N.S. ed: Chitin: Formation and Diagenesis. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Barnett, M.R.: Three Decades of Electron Backscatter Diffraction of Magnesium: What Has It Taught Us? In: Manuel, M.V., Singh, A., Alderman, M., and Neelameggham, N.R. (eds.) Magnesium Technology 2015. pp. 13–13. 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 Communications in Mathematics and Statistics.

Blog post

Luntz, S.: What Causes These “Sailing Stones” To Move?, https://www.iflscience.com/physics/new-look-sailing-stones/

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: The Army’s Risk Assessment of Chemical Munitions Transportation. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1987)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ray, S.J.: Departmentalized Classroom Environments Versus Traditional Classroom Environments in Second Through Fourth Grades: A Quantitative Analysis, (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

Stewart, J.B.: The Post’s Latest Bombshell: It’s Thriving in Digital News, (2017)

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	Communications in Mathematics and Statistics
Abbreviation	Commun. Math. Stat.
ISSN (print)	2194-6701
ISSN (online)	2194-671X
Scope	Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics Statistics and Probability