How to format your references using the Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education. 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

Malin, G. (2006). Oceans. New pieces for the marine sulfur cycle jigsaw. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5799), 607–608.

A journal article with 2 authors

Taira, T., & Hatoyama, Y. (2011). Nuclear energy: Nationalize the Fukushima Daiichi atomic plant. Nature, 480(7377), 313–314.

A journal article with 3 authors

Waghmare, P. R., Gunda, N. S. K., & Mitra, S. K. (2014). Under-water superoleophobicity of fish scales. Scientific reports, 4, 7454.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Shin, T., Kraemer, D., Pryor, J., Liu, L., Rugila, J., Howe, L., et al. (2002). A cat cloned by nuclear transplantation. Nature, 415(6874), 859.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barnes, B. K. (2015). Exercising Influence. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Fahroo, F., Wang, L. Y., & Yin, G. (Eds.). (2013). Recent Advances in Research on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Vol. 444). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Smith, A. S., Birnie, A. K., & French, J. A. (2013). Prenatal Androgens Affect Development and Behavior in Primates. In K. B. H. Clancy, K. Hinde, & J. N. Rutherford (Eds.), Building Babies: Primate Development in Proximate and Ultimate Perspective (pp. 103–131). New York, NY: Springer.

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 Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, December 23). Panda Gives Snowman What For At Toronto Zoo. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/panda-gives-snowman-what-for-at-toronto-zoo/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1995). Travel of Government Officials on Government Aircraft (No. T-NSIAD-96-85). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Aikens, F. A. (2012). An Examination of Ethical Behavior, Job Satisfaction, and Turnover Intent in Southern Ohio QSR Operations (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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, June 24). Justices Take Case on Navy Use of Sonar. New York Times, p. A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Malin 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Malin 2006; Taira and Hatoyama 2011).

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

Two authors: (Taira and Hatoyama 2011)
Three or more authors: (Shin et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education
Abbreviation	Digit. Exp. Math. Educ.
ISSN (print)	2199-3246
ISSN (online)	2199-3254
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