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

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

Smith, D.R.: Metamaterials. A cloaking coating for murky media. Science. 345, 384–385 (2014)

A journal article with 2 authors

Wolf, D., Goff, S.P.: Embryonic stem cells use ZFP809 to silence retroviral DNAs. Nature. 458, 1201–1204 (2009)

A journal article with 3 authors

Dudley, A.T., Ros, M.A., Tabin, C.J.: A re-examination of proximodistal patterning during vertebrate limb development. Nature. 418, 539–544 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Keller, P.J., Schmidt, A.D., Wittbrodt, J., Stelzer, E.H.K.: Reconstruction of zebrafish early embryonic development by scanned light sheet microscopy. Science. 322, 1065–1069 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eidhammer, I., Barsnes, H., Eide, G.E., Martens, L.: Computational and Statistical Methods for Protein Quantification by Mass Spectrometry. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK (2013)

An edited book

Cowling, M.G. ed: Vascular Interventional Radiology: Angioplasty, Stenting, Thrombolysis and Thrombectomy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2007)

A chapter in an edited book

Feig, D.I.: CRP, Uric Acid, and Other Novel Factors in the Pathogenesis of Hypertension. In: Flynn, J.T., Ingelfinger, J.R., and Portman, R.J. (eds.) Pediatric Hypertension. pp. 75–90. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ (2011)

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 Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics.

Blog post

Fang, J.: Giant Bat Walked On All Fours 16 Million Years Ago in New Zealand, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/giant-bat-walked-all-fours-16-million-years-ago-new-zealand/

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: DOD Business Systems Modernization: Recent Slowdown in Institutionalizing Key Management Controls Needs to Be Addressed. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2009)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Liburd-Shaddai, J.L.: The experiences of remedial instructors at one urban community college: A case study, (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

Kishkovsky, S.: The Bolshoi Tries Partnering With a Friend From America, (2007)

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	Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics
Abbreviation	Mediterr. J. Math.
ISSN (print)	1660-5446
ISSN (online)	1660-5454
Scope	General Mathematics