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

Flasar FM (2006) Planetary science. Titan’s polar weather. Science 313:1582–1583

A journal article with 2 authors

Finke DL, Denno RF (2004) Predator diversity dampens trophic cascades. Nature 429:407–410

A journal article with 3 authors

Hasnaoui A, Van Swygenhoven H, Derlet PM (2003) Dimples on nanocrystalline fracture surfaces as evidence for shear plane formation. Science 300:1550–1552

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Molnár A, Schwach F, Studholme DJ, et al (2007) miRNAs control gene expression in the single-cell alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Nature 447:1126–1129

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perez A (2014) Network Security. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Pavlou G, Ahmed T, Dagiuklas T (eds) (2008) Management of Converged Multimedia Networks and Services: 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services, MMNS 2008, Samos Island, Greece, September 22-26, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Smith DT, Pratt JR (2013) Measurement of the Gold-Gold Bond Rupture Force at 4 K in a Single-Atom Chain Using Photon-Momentum-Based Force Calibration. In: Shaw GA, Prorok BC, Starman LA (eds) MEMS and Nanotechnology, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics. Springer, New York, NY, pp 25–29

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 (2014) The Unknown Crocodiles. 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 (1982) Discontinuance of Social Security Student Benefits. 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

Ward VJ (2015) A study of the perceptions of first-year teachers as prepared classroom teachers. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University

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

Greenhouse L (2008) Bush Appeals to Justices on Detainees Case. New York Times A17

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Flasar 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Finke and Denno 2004; Flasar 2006).

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

Two authors: (Finke and Denno 2004)
Three or more authors: (Molnár et al. 2007)

About the journal

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