How to format your references using the Teaching Mathematics and its Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Teaching Mathematics and its Applications. 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	Download the output style file
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

Baker, D.N. (2002) Space science. How to cope with space weather. Science, 297, 1486–1487.

A journal article with 2 authors

Abrahamsen, H. & Stenmark, H. (2011) Cell biology. Growth signaling from inside. Science, 334, 611–612.

A journal article with 3 authors

Martinez-Perez, E., Shaw, P., & Moore, G. (2001) The Ph1 locus is needed to ensure specific somatic and meiotic centromere association. Nature, 411, 204–207.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lei, M., Wang, Z.B., Li, J.S., Tang, H.L., Liu, W.J., & Wang, Y.G. (2014) CeO2 nanocubes-graphene oxide as durable and highly active catalyst support for proton exchange membrane fuel cell. Sci. Rep., 4, 7415.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nógrádi, M. (2007) Stereoselective Synthesis. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Lee, C., Seigneur, J.-M., Park, J.J., & Wagner, R.R. (2011) Secure and Trust Computing, Data Management, and Applications: STA 2011 Workshops: IWCS 2011 and STAVE 2011, Loutraki, Greece, June 28-30, 2011. Proceedings, vol. 187. , Communications in Computer and Information Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kearney, A. (2011) How are Disabled Students Excluded from and Within School. Exclusion from and Within School: Issues and Solutions (Kearney, A. ed). Rotterdam: SensePublishers, pp. 79–91.

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 Teaching Mathematics and its Applications.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2014) Trailer For Man “Eaten Alive” By Anaconda Is Released. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/trailer-man-eaten-alive-anaconda-released/.

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 (1999) Year 2000 Computing Crisis: The District of Columbia Remains Behind Schedule ( No. T-AIMD-99-84). 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

Kohl, J.L. (2009) The association of critical thinking and participation in living and learning programs: Residential Honors compared to Civic /Social Leadership programs and non -participation in living and learning programs (Doctoral dissertation).

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

Barron, J. (2017) It’s Time to Retrieve Time’s Time Capsule. New York Times, A20.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Baker, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Baker, 2002; Abrahamsen & Stenmark, 2011).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Abrahamsen & Stenmark, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Lei et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Teaching Mathematics and its Applications
ISSN (print)	0268-3679
ISSN (online)	1471-6976
Scope	General Mathematics Education