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

Armitage, P. J. (2008). Astronomy. Stars in the making. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5892), 1047–1048.

A journal article with 2 authors

Peters, S. E., & Foote, M. (2002). Determinants of extinction in the fossil record. Nature, 416(6879), 420–424.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, Y. G., Pagani, M., & Liu, Z. (2014). Response to Comment on “A 12-million-year temperature history of the tropical Pacific Ocean.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6216), 1467.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Oinuma, I., Ishikawa, Y., Katoh, H., & Negishi, M. (2004). The Semaphorin 4D receptor Plexin-B1 is a GTPase activating protein for R-Ras. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5685), 862–865.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Soustelle, M. (2016). Thermodynamics of Surfaces and Capillary Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Greuel, G.-M. (2008). A Singular Introduction to Commutative Algebra. (G. Pfister, Ed.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dumova, T. (2015). Engaging Technology in University-Community Partnerships. In W. J. Jacob, S. E. Sutin, J. C. Weidman, & J. L. Yeager (Eds.), Community Engagement in Higher Education: Policy Reforms and Practice (pp. 51–71). Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

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

Luntz, S. (2016, September 26). Lonely Planets Have Crazier Orbits Than Worlds With Companions. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (1985). GAO’s Work Relating to the Job Training Partnership Act (No. 126832). 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

Winer, E. J. (2010). Elementary School Consolidation and Reconfiguration: An Autoethnographic Case Study (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, 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

Nir, S. M. (2017, August 17). Pocket Dial to Reporter Gets Courts’ Spokesman Fired. New York Times, p. A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Armitage 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Armitage 2008; Peters and Foote 2002).

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

Two authors: (Peters and Foote 2002)
Three or more authors: (Oinuma et al. 2004)

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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