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

Osborne J (2010) Arguing to learn in science: the role of collaborative, critical discourse. Science 328:463–466

A journal article with 2 authors

Ikkala O, ten Brinke G (2002) Functional materials based on self-assembly of polymeric supramolecules. Science 295:2407–2409

A journal article with 3 authors

Dangl JL, Horvath DM, Staskawicz BJ (2013) Pivoting the plant immune system from dissection to deployment. Science 341:746–751

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Boutanaev AM, Kalmykova AI, Shevelyov YY, Nurminsky DI (2002) Large clusters of co-expressed genes in the Drosophila genome. Nature 420:666–669

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rigby KA (2013) Aircraft Systems Integration of Air-Launched Weapons. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Jones DSJS, Pujadó PR (2006) Handbook of Petroleum Processing. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Hendriks M, Luyten H, Scheerens J, Sleegers P (2014) Meta-Analyses. In: Scheerens J (ed) Effectiveness of Time Investments in Education: Insights from a review and meta-analysis. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 55–142

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

Andrew E (2015) Massive Clouds Erupted 260km Into Martian Atmosphere – And No One Knows Why. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/massive-clouds-erupted-260km-martian-atmosphere-and-no-one-knows-why/. 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 (2005) Aviation Fees: Review of Air Carriers’ Year 2000 Passenger and Property Screening Costs. 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

Morgan AJ (2017) Analyzing Red and Gray Stages of Bark Beetle Attack in the San Bernardino National Forest Using Remote Sensing. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Hartocollis A (2014) Snow Brings Days of Tumult for Nursing Home Residents. New York Times A21

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