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

Abraham, R. T. (2015). Cell biology. Making sense of amino acid sensing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6218), 128–129.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anderson, D. L., & King, S. D. (2014). Geology. Driving the Earth machine? Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6214), 1184–1185.

A journal article with 3 authors

Suttmeier, R. P., Cao, C., & Simon, D. F. (2006). Priorities and funding. “Knowledge innovation” and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5770), 58–59.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yonemitsu, T., Kuroki, C., Takahashi, N., Mori, Y., Kanmura, Y., Kashiwadani, H., et al. (2013). TRPA1 detects environmental chemicals and induces avoidance behavior and arousal from sleep. Scientific reports, 3, 3100.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burgess, M. (2005). Analytical Network and System Administration. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Yang, L. (2014). Spatio-Temporal Data Analytics for Wind Energy Integration. (M. He, J. Zhang, & V. Vittal, Eds.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Siim, B., & Meret, S. (2016). Right-wing Populism in Denmark: People, Nation and Welfare in the Construction of the ‘Other.’ In G. Lazaridis, G. Campani, & A. Benveniste (Eds.), The Rise of the Far Right in Europe: Populist Shifts and “Othering” (pp. 109–136). London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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

Luntz, S. (2016, September 30). “Toothless” 400 Million-Year-Old Fish Fossil Hints At Later Origin Of Teeth. 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. (1971). Contracts Awarded by the Social and Rehabilitation Service of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare on a Noncompetitive Basis (No. B-164031(3)). 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

Kweider, N. M. (2014). Reading comprehension among Arabic Heritage Language Learners and the Simple View of Reading model (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

Kelly, C. (2007, February 25). Old Graveyards Suffering The Ravages of Vandalism. New York Times, p. WE15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abraham 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Abraham 2015; Anderson and King 2014).

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

Two authors: (Anderson and King 2014)
Three or more authors: (Yonemitsu et al. 2013)

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