How to format your references using the International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Research in Undergraduate 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

Romey, W. L. (2012). Evolution. Real fish attack simulated plankton. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6099), 1181–1182.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shao, Z., & Vollrath, F. (2002). Surprising strength of silkworm silk. Nature, 418(6899), 741.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu, X., Gross, R. L., & Suits, A. G. (2001). “Heavy electron” photoelectron spectroscopy: rotationally resolved ion pair imaging of CH3+. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5551), 2527–2529.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Schweitzer, F., Fagiolo, G., Sornette, D., Vega-Redondo, F., Vespignani, A., & White, D. R. (2009). Economic networks: the new challenges. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5939), 422–425.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Laster, B. (2016). Professional Git®. Indianapolis, IN, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gendler, R. (2011). Treasures of the Southern Sky. (L. L. Christensen & D. Malin, Eds.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Broekens, J., Harbers, M., Hindriks, K., van den Bosch, K., Jonker, C., & Meyer, J.-J. (2010). Do You Get It? User-Evaluated Explainable BDI Agents. In J. Dix & C. Witteveen (Eds.), Multiagent System Technologies: 8th German Conference, MATES 2010, Leipzig, Germany, September 27-29, 2010. Proceedings (pp. 28–39). 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 International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, February 18). How-To: Moss Shower Mat. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-moss-shower-mat/. 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. (1996). Hispanic Employment Statistics (No. GGD-96-85R). 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

Clyde, K. M. (2012). Instructors’ Perceptions of the National Association of Schools of Music Influence on the Development of Undergraduate Applied Percussion Curricula (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Sisario, B. (2017, October 9). Shania Twain Returns To Top of Album Chart. New York Times, p. C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Romey 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Romey 2012; Shao and Vollrath 2002).

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

Two authors: (Shao and Vollrath 2002)
Three or more authors: (Schweitzer et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education
ISSN (print)	2198-9745
ISSN (online)	2198-9753
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