How to format your references using the Mathematics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for 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

Brock, D.W. Human Cloning and Our Sense of Self. Science 2002, 296, 314–316.

A journal article with 2 authors

Burns, J.A.; Cuzzi, J.N. Planetary Science. Our Local Astrophysical Laboratory. Science 2006, 312, 1753–1755.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bogorad, I.W.; Lin, T.-S.; Liao, J.C. Synthetic Non-Oxidative Glycolysis Enables Complete Carbon Conservation. Nature 2013, 502, 693–697.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Johnston, C.A.; Temple, B.R.; Chen, J.-G.; Gao, Y.; Moriyama, E.N.; Jones, A.M.; Siderovski, D.P.; Willard, F.S. Comment on “A G Protein Coupled Receptor Is a Plasma Membrane Receptor for the Plant Hormone Abscisic Acid.” Science 2007, 318, 914; author reply 914.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety Guidelines for Initiating Events and Independent Protection Layers in Layer of Protection Analysis; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2015; ISBN 9781118948743.

An edited book

Computer Networks: 18th Conference, CN 2011, Ustron, Poland, June 14-18, 2011. Proceedings; Kwiecień, A., Gaj, P., Stera, P., Eds.; Communications in Computer and Information Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011; Vol. 160; ISBN 9783642217708.

A chapter in an edited book

Gustin, J.L.; Settles, A.M. Seed Phenomics. In Phenomics: How Next-Generation Phenotyping is Revolutionizing Plant Breeding; Fritsche-Neto, R., Borém, A., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; pp. 67–82 ISBN 9783319136769.

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 Mathematics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Why Are Pandas so Chilled? The Clue Is in the Bamboo Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-are-pandas-so-chilled-clue-bamboo/ (accessed on 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 Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Federal Efforts to Ensure Continued Delivery of Key State-Administered Benefits; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1999;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Blazer, A.E. “I Am Otherwise”: The Romance Between Poetry and Theory After the Death of the Subject. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University: Columbus, OH, 2003.

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

Zraick, K.; Gladstone, R. Prisoner Swap With Iran Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Iran Gets Anyone. New York Times 2016, A8.

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	Mathematics
ISSN (online)	2227-7390
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