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

Buriak, J.M., 2004. Chemistry. Chemistry with nanoscale perfection. Science 304, 692–693.

A journal article with 2 authors

Davidson, E.H., Erwin, D.H., 2006. Gene regulatory networks and the evolution of animal body plans. Science 311, 796–800.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rodríguez-Muñoz, R., Ojanguren, A.F., Tregenza, T., 2008. Comment on “International conservation policy delivers benefits for birds in Europe.” Science 319, 1042; author reply 1042.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Huang, Y., Unni, A.K., Thadani, A.N., Rawal, V.H., 2003. Hydrogen bonding: single enantiomers from a chiral-alcohol catalyst. Nature 424, 146.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Acharya, V.V., Cooley, T.F., Richardson, M., Walter, I., 2010. Regulating Wall Street. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Trauth, E.M., Howcroft, D., Butler, T., Fitzgerald, B., DeGross, J.I. (Eds.), 2006. Social Inclusion: Societal and Organizational Implications for Information Systems: IFIP TC8 WG8.2 International Working Conference, July 12–15, 2006, Limerick, Ireland, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Palermo, G., Silvano, C., Zaccaria, V., Rigoni, E., Kavka, C., Turco, A., Mariani, G., 2011. Response Surface Modeling for Design Space Exploration of Embedded System, in: Silvano, C., Fornaciari, W., Villar, E. (Eds.), Multi-Objective Design Space Exploration of Multiprocessor SoC Architectures: The MULTICUBE Approach. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 75–92.

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 Historia Mathematica.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2017. Scientists Capture the Roar of a Lionfish for the First Time. It’s Quite Something [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1993. Federal Research: Super Collider Is Over Budget and Behind Schedule (No. RCED-93-87). 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

Roettger, M.E., 2008. Three essays on social inequality and the U.S. criminal justice system (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Crow, K., 2002. A Bar (Yes, a Bar) Helps Revive a Neighborhood. New York Times 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buriak, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Buriak, 2004; Davidson and Erwin, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Davidson and Erwin, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Huang et al., 2003)

About the journal

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