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

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

Zars, T. (2012). Physiology. She said no, pass me a beer. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6074), 1309–1310.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tang, Y., & Cohen, A. E. (2011). Enhanced enantioselectivity in excitation of chiral molecules by superchiral light. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6027), 333–336.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brunton, B. W., Botvinick, M. M., & Brody, C. D. (2013). Rats and humans can optimally accumulate evidence for decision-making. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6128), 95–98.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kunze, E., Dower, J. F., Beveridge, I., Dewey, R., & Bartlett, K. P. (2006). Observations of biologically generated turbulence in a coastal inlet. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5794), 1768–1770.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ccps. (2017). Guidelines for Combustible Dust Hazard Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Upton, D. (2015). Psychology of Wounds and Wound Care in Clinical Practice. (P. Upton, Ed.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Mángano, M. G., Buatois, L. A., Wilson, M., & Droser, M. (2016). The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event. In M. G. Mángano & L. A. Buatois (Eds.), The Trace-Fossil Record of Major Evolutionary Events: Volume 1: Precambrian and Paleozoic (pp. 127–156). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Teacher Education.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, July 20). How Science Can Help Us Make AI Less Creepy And More Trustworthy. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-science-can-help-us-make-ai-less-creepy-and-more-trustworthy/. 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. (2007). Higher Education: Information Sharing Could Help Institutions Identify and Address Challenges Some Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Students Face (No. GAO-07-925). 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

Connelly, J. (2010). A tradition of excellence transitions to the 21 st century: Hungarian mathematics education, 1988-2008 (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Taylor, K. (2015, July 28). Principal Acknowledged Forging Answers on Tests for Students, Officials Say. New York Times, p. A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zars 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Tang and Cohen 2011; Zars 2012).

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

Two authors: (Tang and Cohen 2011)
Three or more authors: (Kunze et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education
Abbreviation	J. Math. Teach. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1386-4416
ISSN (online)	1573-1820
Scope	General Mathematics Education