How to format your references using the Historia Mathematica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Historia Mathematica. 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	Download the output style file
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

Schultz, P.H., 2007. Planetary science. Hidden Mars. Science 318, 1080–1081.

A journal article with 2 authors

Castaneda, J., Matzuk, M.M., 2015. DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY. Toward a rapid and reversible male pill. Science 350, 385–386.

A journal article with 3 authors

He, Y., Xue, G.-H., Fu, J.-Z., 2014. Fabrication of low cost soft tissue prostheses with the desktop 3D printer. Sci. Rep. 4, 6973.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Freitas-Junior, L.H., Bottius, E., Pirrit, L.A., Deitsch, K.W., Scheidig, C., Guinet, F., Nehrbass, U., Wellems, T.E., Scherf, A., 2000. Frequent ectopic recombination of virulence factor genes in telomeric chromosome clusters of P. falciparum. Nature 407, 1018–1022.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fliszár, S., 2008. Atomic Charges, Bond Properties, and Molecular Energies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Callard, F., Staines, K., Wilkes, J. (Eds.), 2016. The Restless Compendium: Interdisciplinary Investigations of Rest and Its Opposites. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Astrof, S., 2013. Interactions Between Neural Crest-Derived Cells and Extracellular Microenvironment During Cardiovascular Development, in: DeSimone, D.W., Mecham, R.P. (Eds.), Extracellular Matrix in Development, Biology of Extracellular Matrix. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 105–131.

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 Historia Mathematica.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. The crab-castrating parasite that zombifies its prey [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/crab-castrating-parasite-zombifies-its-prey/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1989. Guaranteed Student Loans: Comparisons of Single State and Multistate Guaranty Agencies (No. HRD-89-92). 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

Smith, J.A., 2010. Functional analysis of ESAT-6 and EspB, two virulence proteins secreted by the ESX-1 system in Mycobacterium marinum (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2007. Free-Speech Case Divides Bush and Religious Right. New York Times A22.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Schultz, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Castaneda and Matzuk, 2015; Schultz, 2007).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Castaneda and Matzuk, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Freitas-Junior et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Historia Mathematica
Abbreviation	Historia Math.
ISSN (print)	0315-0860
Scope	History General Mathematics