How to format your references using the Axiomathes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Axiomathes. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

McBride H (2003) Young scientist: women mentoring women. Nature 426:588

A journal article with 2 authors

Lu Q, Lemke G (2001) Homeostatic regulation of the immune system by receptor tyrosine kinases of the Tyro 3 family. Science 293:306–311

A journal article with 3 authors

Hautier Y, Niklaus PA, Hector A (2009) Competition for light causes plant biodiversity loss after eutrophication. Science 324:636–638

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Decaestecker E, Gaba S, Raeymaekers JAM, et al (2007) Host-parasite “Red Queen” dynamics archived in pond sediment. Nature 450:870–873

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dosil J (2008) Eating Disorders in Athletes. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, West Sussex, England

An edited book

Reichl P, Stiller B, Tuffin B (eds) (2009) Network Economics for Next Generation Networks: 6th International Workshop on Internet Charging and Qos Technologies, ICQT 2009, Aachen, Germany, May 11-15, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Mukhopadhyay A, Victoria OSM, Zachow S, Lamecker H (2016) Robust and Accurate Appearance Models Based on Joint Dictionary Learning Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative. In: Wu G, Coupé P, Zhan Y, et al. (eds) Patch-Based Techniques in Medical Imaging: Second International Workshop, Patch-MI 2016, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2016, Athens, Greece, October 17, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 25–33

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 Axiomathes.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Studies Supporting Use of Medical Marijuana are Mostly Poor Quality, Researchers Find. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/studies-supporting-use-medical-marijuana-are-mostly-poor-quality-researchers/. 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 (2014) U.S. Launch Enterprise: Acquisition Best Practices Can Benefit Future Efforts. 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

Cornejo VM (2010) Teachers’ perceptions about promoting mental health in the classroom. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Palmer E, Otis J (2016) Neediest Cases Fund Opens 105th Campaign. New York Times A30

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McBride 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Lu and Lemke 2001; McBride 2003).

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

Two authors: (Lu and Lemke 2001)
Three or more authors: (Decaestecker et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Axiomathes
Abbreviation	Axiomathes
ISSN (print)	1122-1151
ISSN (online)	1572-8390
Scope	Philosophy Mathematics (miscellaneous)