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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Chapman, T., 2005. Protein purification: pure but not simple. Nature 434, 795–798.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, X., Zhou, Z., 2004. Palaeontology: pterosaur embryo from the Early Cretaceous. Nature 429, 621.

A journal article with 3 authors

Prasanth, S.G., Prasanth, K.V., Stillman, B., 2002. Orc6 involved in DNA replication, chromosome segregation, and cytokinesis. Science 297, 1026–1031.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ito, M., Yang, Z., Andl, T., Cui, C., Kim, N., Millar, S.E., Cotsarelis, G., 2007. Wnt-dependent de novo hair follicle regeneration in adult mouse skin after wounding. Nature 447, 316–320.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blackford, R., 2012. Freedom of Religion and the Secular State. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Shively, C.A., Wilson, M.E. (Eds.), 2016. Social Inequalities in Health in Nonhuman Primates: The Biology of the Gradient, Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Tschachler, E., Tiplica, G.-S., 2016. Venereal Disease I: Syphilis, in: Ólafsson, J.H., Hay, R.J. (Eds.), Antibiotic and Antifungal Therapies in Dermatology. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 57–68.

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

Luntz, S., 2015. Cat Takes Stand Against Mountain Lion [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cat-takes-stand-against-mountain-lion/ (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, 1978. Need for Full Cost Reporting and Participating Agreement on SEASAT-A Project (No. PSAD-78-76). 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

Mikhailik, Y., 2013. Longing Limned (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Vecsey, G., 2016. In Rejection of Steinbrenner, the Hall Adopts His Brashness. New York Times D8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chapman, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Chapman, 2005; Wang and Zhou, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Zhou, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Ito et al., 2007)

About the journal

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