How to format your references using the Collectanea Mathematica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Collectanea Mathematica. 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

Marshall, E.: A sinister plot or victim of politics? Science. 289, 571 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Boehme, C., McCamey, D.R.: Physics. Nuclear-spin quantum memory poised to take the lead. Science. 336, 1239–1240 (2012)

A journal article with 3 authors

Jung, H., Green, H.W., II, Dobrzhinetskaya, L.F.: Intermediate-depth earthquake faulting by dehydration embrittlement with negative volume change. Nature. 428, 545–549 (2004)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jung, J.W., Jeon, H.M., Pyo, J., Lim, J.-H., Weon, B.M., Kohmura, Y., Ishikawa, T., Je, J.H.: Four-dimensional visualization of rising microbubbles. Sci. Rep. 4, 5083 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johnston, D.: A Brief History of Justice. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK (2011)

An edited book

Schaaf, P. ed: Laser Processing of Materials: Fundamentals, Applications and Developments. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2010)

A chapter in an edited book

Patterson, C.: The Role of Surgery in Pulmonary Hypertension. In: Madden, B. (ed.) Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension. pp. 147–170. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

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 Collectanea Mathematica.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Why Do People Feel ‘A Rose By Any Other Name’ Wouldn’t Fit As Well?, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/why-do-people-feel-rose-any-other-name-wouldn-t-fit-well/

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: Inconsistencies in Awarding Financial Aid to Students Under Four Federal Programs. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1979)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Youngbull, N.R.: The (Un)Success of American Indian Gates Millennium Scholars Within Institutions of Higher Education, (2017)

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

Ortved, J.: Browsing for Denim. Or a Toothbrush, (2017)

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	Collectanea Mathematica
Abbreviation	Collect. Math.
ISSN (print)	0010-0757
ISSN (online)	2038-4815
Scope	General Mathematics Applied Mathematics