How to format your references using the Mathematische Annalen citation style

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

Liljas, A.: Biochemistry. Getting close to termination. Science. 322, 863–865 (2008)

A journal article with 2 authors

Levine, B.L., June, C.H.: Perspective: assembly line immunotherapy. Nature. 498, S17 (2013)

A journal article with 3 authors

Shi, Y., Evans, J.E., Rock, K.L.: Molecular identification of a danger signal that alerts the immune system to dying cells. Nature. 425, 516–521 (2003)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tamura, A., Ikeda, G., Seo, J.-H., Tsuchiya, K., Yajima, H., Sasaki, Y., Akiyoshi, K., Yui, N.: Molecular logistics using cytocleavable polyrotaxanes for the reactivation of enzymes delivered in living cells. Sci. Rep. 3, 2252 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Groves, E.: The Constant Contact Guide to Email Marketing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2009)

An edited book

Cooper, S.M., Sather-Wagstaff, S. eds: Connections Between Algebra, Combinatorics, and Geometry. Springer, New York, NY (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Hanneforth, T.: fsm2 – A Scripting Language for Creating Weighted Finite-State Morphologies. In: Mahlow, C. and Piotrowski, M. (eds.) State of the Art in Computational Morphology: Workshop on Systems and Frameworks for Computational Morphology, SFCM 2009, Zurich, Switzerland, September 4, 2009. Proceedings. pp. 48–63. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009)

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 Mathematische Annalen.

Blog post

Luntz, S.: Gene Found That Harms Males, Not Females

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: Student Financial Aid: Federal Aid Awarded to Students Taking Remedial Courses. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1997)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yuan, J.: Two Essays on Asset Pricing, (2012)

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

Cooper, M.: Michael Tilson Thomas To Step Down in 2020, (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	Mathematische Annalen
Abbreviation	Math. Ann.
ISSN (print)	0025-5831
ISSN (online)	1432-1807
Scope	General Mathematics