How to format your references using the Educational Studies in Mathematics citation style

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

Villeneuve, D. M. (2005). Physics. Toward creating a Rutherford atom. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5716), 1730–1731.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shine, K. P., & Sturges, W. T. (2007). Atmospheric science. CO2 is not the only gas. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5820), 1804–1805.

A journal article with 3 authors

Newell, R. G., Pizer, W. A., & Raimi, D. (2014). Environmental economics. Carbon market lessons and global policy outlook. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6177), 1316–1317.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lastapis, M., Martin, M., Riedel, D., Hellner, L., Comtet, G., & Dujardin, G. (2005). Picometer-scale electronic control of molecular dynamics inside a single molecule. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5724), 1000–1003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Choudhry, M., Moskovic, D., Wong, M., Baig, S., Liu, Z., Lizzio, M., & Voicu, A. (2014). Fixed Income Markets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Qudrat-Ullah, H., Spector, J. M., & Davidsen, P. I. (Eds.). (2008). Complex Decision Making: Theory and Practice. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Protogerakis, M., Gramatke, A., & Henning, K. (2009). A Software Architecture for a Telematic Rescue Assistance System. In O. Dössel & W. C. Schlegel (Eds.), World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany: Vol. 25/5 Information and Communication in Medicine, Telemedicine and e-Health (pp. 17–20). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Educational Studies in Mathematics.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, November 12). Why New Law Banning All Psychoactive Substances Will Be Just Another ‘War On Drugs’ Disaster. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-new-law-banning-all-psychoactive-substances-will-be-just-another-war-on-drugs-disaster/. 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. (1983). The Air Force Can Improve Its Maintenance Information Systems (No. GGD-83-20). 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

Grace-McCaskey, C. A. (2012). Fishermen, Politics, and Participation: An Ethnographic Examination of Commercial Fisheries Management in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Wagner, J. (2017, May 3). Harvey and the Mets Struggle Again. New York Times, p. B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Villeneuve 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Shine and Sturges 2007; Villeneuve 2005).

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

Two authors: (Shine and Sturges 2007)
Three or more authors: (Lastapis et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Educational Studies in Mathematics
Abbreviation	Educ. Stud. Math.
ISSN (print)	0013-1954
ISSN (online)	1573-0816
Scope	General Mathematics Education