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

Smol JP (2012) Climate Change: A planet in flux. Nature 483:S12-5

A journal article with 2 authors

Chiosis G, Boneca IG (2001) Selective cleavage of D-Ala-D-Lac by small molecules: re-sensitizing resistant bacteria to vancomycin. Science 293:1484–1487

A journal article with 3 authors

Alford RA, Dixon PM, Pechmann JH (2001) Ecology. Global amphibian population declines. Nature 412:499–500

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Seibold G, Di Castro C, Grilli M, Lorenzana J (2014) Spin excitations of ferronematic order in underdoped cuprate superconductors. Sci Rep 4:5319

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Braha A, Groza G (2006) Moderne Abwassertechnik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Singh M, Bisht IS, Dutta M (2014) Broadening the Genetic Base of Grain Legumes. Springer India, New Delhi

A chapter in an edited book

Kluvancová D (2016) A-Poset with Multiplicative Operation. In: Atanassov KT, Castillo O, Kacprzyk J, et al (eds) Novel Developments in Uncertainty Representation and Processing: Advances in Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets and Generalized Nets – Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets and Generalized Nets. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 51–60

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

Davis J (2016) Newly Described Orchid Has A Tiny Demon At Its Center. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/newly-described-orchid-has-a-tiny-demon-at-its-center/. 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 (1986) ADP Acquisitions: SSA Should Limit ADP Procurements Until Further Testing Is Performed. 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

Brown ER (2011) Comparison of instructional techniques of high school economics teachers in Georgia and Shenzhen, China. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Lee L (2005) The Multimedia Frank Gehry Now in Cardboard and on Film. New York Times F3

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