How to format your references using the Communications in Mathematics and Statistics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Communications in Mathematics and Statistics. 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

Humphries, C.: Sex differences: Luck of the chromosomes. Nature. 516, S10-1 (2014)

A journal article with 2 authors

Medina-Elizalde, M., Rohling, E.J.: Collapse of Classic Maya civilization related to modest reduction in precipitation. Science. 335, 956–959 (2012)

A journal article with 3 authors

Cravatt, B.F., Simon, G.M., Yates, J.R., 3rd: The biological impact of mass-spectrometry-based proteomics. Nature. 450, 991–1000 (2007)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Berndt, T., Böge, O., Stratmann, F., Heintzenberg, J., Kulmala, M.: Rapid formation of sulfuric acid particles at near-atmospheric conditions. Science. 307, 698–700 (2005)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pease, G.: Optimize Your Greatest Asset-Your People. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ (2015)

An edited book

Cleophas, T.J.: SPSS for Starters and 2nd Levelers. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Boyle, J.H., Bryden, J., Cohen, N.: An Integrated Neuro-mechanical Model of C. elegans Forward Locomotion. In: Ishikawa, M., Doya, K., Miyamoto, H., and Yamakawa, T. (eds.) Neural Information Processing: 14th International Conference, ICONIP 2007, Kitakyushu, Japan, November 13-16, 2007, Revised Selected Papers, Part I. pp. 37–47. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2008)

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 Communications in Mathematics and Statistics.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: How Shrimp Farming Wreaked Havoc On Sri Lanka’s Coasts, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-shrimp-farming-wreaked-havoc-sri-lanka-s-coasts/

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: U.S. Agencies Could Benefit by Better Management of ADP Activities of Government Contractors. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1973)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Poyaoan-Linzaga, M.R.: The effects of patient communication in early intervention for falls among the Medicare patients, (2014)

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.: Model Makes A Stand With Feminist Art, (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	Communications in Mathematics and Statistics
Abbreviation	Commun. Math. Stat.
ISSN (print)	2194-6701
ISSN (online)	2194-671X
Scope	Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics Statistics and Probability