How to format your references using the Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education. 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

Klein, R. G. (2003). Paleoanthropology. Whither the Neanderthals? Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5612), 1525–1527.

A journal article with 2 authors

Field, B., & Osbourn, A. E. (2008). Metabolic diversification--independent assembly of operon-like gene clusters in different plants. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5875), 543–547.

A journal article with 3 authors

Greiner, M., Regal, C. A., & Jin, D. S. (2003). Emergence of a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate from a Fermi gas. Nature, 426(6966), 537–540.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gaillard, F., Malki, M., Iacono-Marziano, G., Pichavant, M., & Scaillet, B. (2008). Carbonatite melts and electrical conductivity in the asthenosphere. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5906), 1363–1365.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Joule, J. A., & Mills, K. (2012). Heterocyclic Chemistry at a Glance. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Balali-Mood, M., & Abdollahi, M. (Eds.). (2014). Basic and Clinical Toxicology of Organophosphorus Compounds. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Falcocchio, J. C., & Levinson, H. S. (2015). Overview of the Causes of Congestion. In H. S. Levinson (Ed.), Road Traffic Congestion: A Concise Guide (pp. 35–37). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 28). SpaceX Rocket Explodes Minutes After Launch. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/spacex-rocket-explodes-minutes-after-launch/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1993). Radio Marti (No. NSIAD-93-126R). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McCoy, N. (2015). Functionality Evaluation of the Wave Suppressor and Sediment Collection (WSSC) System: Wave Reduction, Sediment Collection, Mathematical Model, and Preliminary Field Evaluation (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Kanter, J. (2017, February 3). Europe’s Leaders Aim to Slow Migration on Dangerous Sea Route From Africa. New York Times, p. A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Klein 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Field and Osbourn 2008; Klein 2003).

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

Two authors: (Field and Osbourn 2008)
Three or more authors: (Gaillard et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education
Abbreviation	Digit. Exp. Math. Educ.
ISSN (print)	2199-3246
ISSN (online)	2199-3254
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