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

Hamilton, W.B.: Comment on “A vestige of Earth’s oldest ophiolite.” Science. 318, 746; author reply 746 (2007)

A journal article with 2 authors

Schmidt, M., Lipson, H.: Distilling free-form natural laws from experimental data. Science. 324, 81–85 (2009)

A journal article with 3 authors

Fortin, P.D., Walsh, C.T., Magarvey, N.A.: A transglutaminase homologue as a condensation catalyst in antibiotic assembly lines. Nature. 448, 824–827 (2007)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Puneet, P., Podila, R., Karakaya, M., Zhu, S., He, J., Tritt, T.M., Dresselhaus, M.S., Rao, A.M.: Preferential scattering by interfacial charged defects for enhanced thermoelectric performance in few-layered n-type Bi2Te3. Sci. Rep. 3, 3212 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson, D.: TKO Sales! John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2007)

An edited book

Jezierski, J.: Homotopy Methods in Topological Fixed and Periodic Points Theory. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2006)

A chapter in an edited book

Niño-Mora, J.: A Dynamic Page-Refresh Index Policy for Web Crawlers. In: Sericola, B., Telek, M., and Horváth, G. (eds.) Analytical and Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Applications: 21st International Conference, ASMTA 2014, Budapest, Hungary, June 30 – July 2, 2014. Proceedings. pp. 46–60. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2014)

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.: First Large Scale Solar Power To Be Built In China’s Gobi Desert, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/first-large-scale-solar-power-be-built-chinas-gobi-desert/

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: Award of Indian Health Professions Scholarships. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1999)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Venegas Carro, G.I.: The Slow Movements of Anton Bruckner’s Symphonies: Dialogical Perspectives, (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

Koblin, J.: Before Taking Shows to Audiences, Networks Try to Win Over Critics, (2016)

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