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

Pasachoff JM (2012) Transit of Venus: Last chance to see. Nature 485:303–304

A journal article with 2 authors

Davis BR, Candotti F (2010) Genetics. Mosaicism--switch or spectrum? Science 330:46–47

A journal article with 3 authors

Thürmer K, Hwang RQ, Bartelt NC (2006) Surface self-organization caused by dislocation networks. Science 311:1272–1274

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Guo M, Chong YE, Beebe K, et al (2009) The C-Ala domain brings together editing and aminoacylation functions on one tRNA. Science 325:744–747

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

da Silva FSC, Agustí-Cullell J (2005) Knowledge Coordination. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Furuichi T, Thompson J (2008) The Bonobos: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Lyneis JM (2011) Business Policy and Strategy, System Dynamics Applications to. In: Meyers RA (ed) Complex Systems in Finance and Econometrics. Springer, New York, NY, pp 69–92

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) Source Of Black Hole Jets Revealed For The First Time. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/relativistic-jets/. 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 (2011) Auto Safety: NHTSA Has Options to Improve the Safety Defect Recall Process. 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

Savage F (2014) Effect of Dry-Wet Cycles on Fracture Propagation in Shale and Gas Production Mechanism. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Hamilton JM, Kosar KR (2016) All the President’s Propaganda. 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