How to format your references using the Mathematics-in-Industry Case Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mathematics-in-Industry Case Studies. 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

Sakai KL (2005) Language acquisition and brain development. Science 310:815–819

A journal article with 2 authors

Jenkins R, Burton AM (2008) 100% accuracy in automatic face recognition. Science 319:435

A journal article with 3 authors

Chave J, Alonso D, Etienne RS (2006) Theoretical biology: comparing models of species abundance. Nature 441:E1; discussion E1-2

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Koch S, Mousset S, Graser A, et al (2013) IL-6 activated integrated BATF/IRF4 functions in lymphocytes are T-bet-independent and reversed by subcutaneous immunotherapy. Sci Rep 3:1754

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Larose DT (2005) Data Mining Methods and Models. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Bassi A, Bauer M, Fiedler M, et al (2013) Enabling Things to Talk: Designing IoT solutions with the IoT Architectural Reference Model. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Paneni F, Cosentino F (2015) Environment, Epigenetic Changes, and Cardiovascular Damage. In: Cosentino F (ed) Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease: A Guide to Clinical Management. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 35–47

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-Industry Case Studies.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2017) A Coal Plant In India Has Found A Way To Turn Almost All Its CO2 Emissions Into Baking Powder. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2008) Traffic Safety: Grants Generally Address Key Safety Issues, Despite State Eligibility and Management Difficulties. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Uthe PB (2010) The development of polycationic materials for gene delivery applications. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Rothenberg B (2017) Sharing a Name With His Game, and Doing His Best to Live Up to It. New York Times D5

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-Industry Case Studies
Abbreviation	Math. Ind. Case Stud.
ISSN (online)	1913-4967
Scope