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

Weinert T (2007) Cell biology. What a cell should know (but may not). Science 315:1374–1375

A journal article with 2 authors

Landisman CE, Connors BW (2005) Long-term modulation of electrical synapses in the mammalian thalamus. Science 310:1809–1813

A journal article with 3 authors

Carlson ME, Hsu M, Conboy IM (2008) Imbalance between pSmad3 and Notch induces CDK inhibitors in old muscle stem cells. Nature 454:528–532

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Rawat UBS, Zavialov AV, Sengupta J, et al (2003) A cryo-electron microscopic study of ribosome-bound termination factor RF2. Nature 421:87–90

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pai MD FACC FRCP Edin RG, Varadarajan MD FACC P (2014) Echocardiography Board Review. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Yegnasubramanian S, Isaacs WB (eds) (2010) Modern Molecular Biology: Approaches for Unbiased Discovery in Cancer Research. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Skubov D, Khodzhaev KS (2008) Periodic solutions in problems of excitation of mechanical oscillations. In: Khodzhaev KS (ed) Non-Linear Electromechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 175–204

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) Greenland Glacier Just Shed A Chunk Of Ice The Size Of Manhattan. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/greenland-glacier-just-shed-chunk-ice-could-cover-manhattan/. 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 (1972) Information on Federally Owned Land in Oregon Set Aside for Use by the Burns Paiute Indian Colony. 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

Gravano A (2009) Turn-taking and affirmative cue words in task-oriented dialogue. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia 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

Poniewozik J (2017) Feeding Off Trump-Era Anxiety. New York Times C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weinert 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Landisman and Connors 2005; Weinert 2007).

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

Two authors: (Landisman and Connors 2005)
Three or more authors: (Rawat et al. 2003)

About the journal

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