How to format your references using the Journal of Mathematics in Industry citation style

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

Lee PH. Should we adjust for a confounder if empirical and theoretical criteria yield contradictory results? A simulation study. Sci. Rep. 2014 Aug 15;4:6085.

A journal article with 2 authors

Battisti DS, Naylor RL. Historical warnings of future food insecurity with unprecedented seasonal heat. Science. 2009 Jan 9;323(5911):240–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nawae W, Hannongbua S, Ruengjitchatchawalya M. Defining the membrane disruption mechanism of kalata B1 via coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations. Sci. Rep. 2014 Feb 3;4:3933.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang J, Wei D, He K, Gong H, Wang P. Encapsulating urban traffic rhythms into road networks. Sci. Rep. 2014 Feb 20;4:4141.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bai Y. Practical Database Programming with Visual Basic.NET. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Venkataraman H, Muntean G-M, editors. Cognitive Radio and its Application for Next Generation Cellular and Wireless Networks. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Pratt LJ, Whitehead JA. Time-Dependence and Shocks. In: Whitehead JA, editor. Rotating Hydraulics: Nonlinear Topographic Effects in the Ocean and Atmosphere. New York, NY: Springer; 2007. p. 255–368.

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 Journal of Mathematics in Industry.

Blog post

Davis J. Outbreak Of “Super” Gonorrhea In Northern England [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/outbreak-super-gonorrhea-northern-england/

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. Airport Finance: Past Funding Levels May Not Be Sufficient to Cover Airports’ Planned Capital Development. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Feb. Report No.: GAO-03-497T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Schluter KT. Hearing words without structure: Subliminal speech priming and the organization of the Moroccan Arabic lexicon [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2013.

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

La GORCE T. For This Couple, It’s Death Till They Part. New York Times. 2017 Jul 7;ST14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lee 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Battisti and Naylor 2009; Lee 2014).

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

Two authors: (Battisti and Naylor 2009)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Mathematics in Industry
Abbreviation	J. Math. Ind.
ISSN (online)	2190-5983
Scope	Applied Mathematics