How to format your references using the Educational Studies in Mathematics citation style

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

Macilwain, C. (2012). The time is right to confront misconduct. Nature, 488(7409), 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, G. X., & Poo, M.-M. (2005). Requirement of TRPC channels in netrin-1-induced chemotropic turning of nerve growth cones. Nature, 434(7035), 898–904.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shelby, R. A., Smith, D. R., & Schultz, S. (2001). Experimental verification of a negative index of refraction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5514), 77–79.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yang, L., Cui, X., Zhang, J., Wang, K., Shen, M., Zeng, S., et al. (2014). Lattice strain effects on the optical properties of MoS2 nanosheets. Scientific reports, 4, 5649.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kääriäinen, T., Cameron, D., Kääriäinen, M.-L., & Sherman, A. (2013). Atomic Layer Deposition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Voronkov, A., & Virbitskaite, I. (Eds.). (2015). Perspectives of System Informatics: 9th International Ershov Informatics Conference, PSI 2014, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 24-27, 2014. Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 8974). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Al-Shihabi, L., Wysocki, R. W., & Ruch, D. S. (2015). Management of Type 1A TFCC Tears. In W. B. Geissler (Ed.), Wrist and Elbow Arthroscopy: A Practical Surgical Guide to Techniques (pp. 59–65). 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 Educational Studies in Mathematics.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, June 30). The Ability To Regenerate Lost Limbs May Have Only Evolved Once. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-ability-to-regenerate-lost-limbs-may-have-only-evolved-once/. 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. (2004). Surface Transportation: Many Factors Affect Investment Decisions (No. GAO-04-744). 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

Manalo, J. B. (2017). Ascend Physical Therapy: A Private Practice Clinic for the Next Level (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Vecsey, G. (2010, September 25). Football Coaches Find Stress And Satisfaction. New York Times, p. D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain 2012; Wang and Poo 2005).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Poo 2005)
Three or more authors: (Yang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Educational Studies in Mathematics
Abbreviation	Educ. Stud. Math.
ISSN (print)	0013-1954
ISSN (online)	1573-0816
Scope	General Mathematics Education