How to format your references using the Fields Mathematics Education Journal citation style

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

Sohn E (2015) Screening: Don’t look now. Nature 527:S118-9

A journal article with 2 authors

Gomes CP, Selman B (2002) Computer science. Satisfied with physics. Science 297:784–785

A journal article with 3 authors

Loudet JC, Hanusse P, Poulin P (2004) Stokes drag on a sphere in a nematic liquid crystal. Science 306:1525

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Weidner CI, Walenda T, Lin Q, et al (2013) Hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells acquire distinct DNA-hypermethylation during in vitro culture. Sci Rep 3:3372

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davidson PW, Prasher VP, Janicki MP (2008) Mental Health, Intellectual Disabilities, and the Aging Process. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Miesenberger K, Fels D, Archambault D, et al (2014) Computers Helping People with Special Needs: 14th International Conference, ICCHP 2014, Paris, France, July 9-11, 2014, Proceedings, Part II. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Bartl R, Frisch B (2009) Subgroups of Osteoporosis. In: Frisch B (ed) Osteoporosis: Diagnosis, Prevention, Therapy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 39–44

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 Fields Mathematics Education Journal.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) China Will Build A Solar Plant In The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Next Year. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/china-will-build-a-solar-plant-in-the-chernobyl-exclusion-zone-next-year/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1981) Multiyear Authorizations for Research and Development. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Canan D (2016) Action Research Study on the Gradual Release of Responsibility, Critical Thinking Skills and Use of Intertextuality in a Midwest Suburban High School Setting. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University

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

Barry E, Kishkovsky S (2011) For Tolstoy and Russia, Still No Happy Ending. New York Times A1

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	Fields Mathematics Education Journal
Abbreviation	Fields Math. Educ. J.
ISSN (online)	1925-6639
Scope