How to format your references using the European Journal of Mathematics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of 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

Zhou, M.: Materials science. Exceptional properties by design. Science. 339, 1161–1162 (2013)

A journal article with 2 authors

Bechler, M.E., ffrench-Constant, C.: Neuroscience. A new wrap for neuronal activity? Science. 344, 480–481 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Ghuman, A.S., van den Honert, R.N., Martin, A.: Interregional neural synchrony has similar dynamics during spontaneous and stimulus-driven states. Sci. Rep. 3, 1481 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ritchie, K.B., Nagelkerken, I., James, S., Smith, G.W.: A tetrodotoxin-producing marine pathogen. Nature. 404, 354 (2000)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG: MAK- und BAT-Werte-Liste 2013. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany (2013)

An edited book

Strate, J.: Expert Performance Indexing in SQL Server. Apress, Berkeley, CA (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Marques de Sá, J.P., Silva, L.M.A., Santos, J.M.F., Alexandre, L.A.: EE-Inspired Risks. In: Silva, L.M.A., Santos, J.M.F., and Alexandre, L.A. (eds.) Minimum Error Entropy Classification. pp. 121–137. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

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 European Journal of Mathematics.

Blog post

Luntz, S.: Breaking News: DRACULA Found On Mars, https://www.iflscience.com/space/newsflash-shape-mars-probably-not-coffin/

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: Space Acquisitions: Government and Industry Partners Face Substantial Challenges in Developing New DOD Space Systems. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2009)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Janice, J.: Preschoolers’ Prosocial Responding to Social Others’ Distress, (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

Wasik, J.F.: Accelerators Lend Help to a Business Idea Trying to Catch Fire, (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	European Journal of Mathematics
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Math.
ISSN (print)	2199-675X
ISSN (online)	2199-6768
Scope	General Mathematics