How to format your references using the Fields Mathematics Education Journal citation style

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

May M (2013) Regenerative medicine: Rebuilding the backbone. Nature 503:S7-9

A journal article with 2 authors

Meyer G, Brose N (2003) Neuroscience. SPARring with spines. Science 302:1341–1344

A journal article with 3 authors

Lorenz K, Lohse MJ, Quitterer U (2003) Protein kinase C switches the Raf kinase inhibitor from Raf-1 to GRK-2. Nature 426:574–579

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wang J-T, Chen C, Wang E, Kawazoe Y (2014) A new carbon allotrope with six-fold helical chains in all-sp2 bonding networks. Sci Rep 4:4339

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carrasco RA, Johnston M (2008) Non-Binary Error Control Coding for Wireless Communication and Data Storage. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Neustein A, Markowitz JA (2013) Mobile Speech and Advanced Natural Language Solutions. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Paoli L, Donati A (2014) Distribution Chains and Market Relationships. In: Donati A (ed) The Sports Doping Market: Understanding Supply and Demand, and the Challenges of Their Control. Springer, New York, NY, pp 85–106

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 Fields Mathematics Education Journal.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Erections. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/everything-you-need-know-about-boners/. 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 (1978) Activities of the Economic Opportunities Development Corporation of San Antonio and Bexar County, Texas. 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

Lee M (2014) A graphic design curriculum development project. 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

Walsh MW (2015) Major Changes in Rhode Island Pension Overhaul. New York Times B6

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	Fields Mathematics Education Journal
Abbreviation	Fields Math. Educ. J.
ISSN (online)	1925-6639
Scope