How to format your references using the Mathematics in Computer Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mathematics in Computer Science. 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

Schorghofer, N.: Dynamics of ice ages on Mars. Nature. 449, 192–194 (2007)

A journal article with 2 authors

Ward, L.D., Kellis, M.: Response to comment on “Evidence of abundant purifying selection in humans for recently acquired regulatory functions.” Science. 340, 682 (2013)

A journal article with 3 authors

Kalka, M.B., Smith, A.R., Kalko, E.K.V.: Bats limit arthropods and herbivory in a tropical forest. Science. 320, 71 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rault, J.E., Menteş, T.O., Locatelli, A., Barrett, N.: Reversible switching of in-plane polarized ferroelectric domains in BaTiO3(001) with very low energy electrons. Sci. Rep. 4, 6792 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Duffy, D.J.: Finite Difference Methods in Financial Engineering. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK (2006)

An edited book

Isomäki, H., Pekkola, S. eds: Reframing Humans in Information Systems Development. Springer, London (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Vrolijk, M.A.: Immigration Detention and Non-removability Before the European Court of Human Rights. In: Guia, M.J., Koulish, R., and Mitsilegas, V. (eds.) Immigration Detention, Risk and Human Rights: Studies on Immigration and Crime. pp. 47–72. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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 in Computer Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: How The Bacteria In Our Gut Affect Our Cravings For Food

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: Space Station: Estimated Total U.S. Funding Requirements. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1995)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Watson, C.A.: A cultural confluence: Approaches to embedding cultural insights and inclusion throughout the marketing process, (2014)

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

Kenigsberg, B.: After 2008, Picking On the Little Guy, (2017)

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 in Computer Science
Abbreviation	Math. Comput. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1661-8270
ISSN (online)	1661-8289
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics