How to format your references using the International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology. 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

[1]

Beacham TD. Comment on “rapid evolution of egg size in captive salmon.” Science. 2003;302(5642):59; discussion 59.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Cepko C, Punzo C. Cell metabolism: Sugar for sight. Nature. 2015;522(7557):428–429.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hashiyama K, Hayashi Y, Kobayashi S. Drosophila Sex lethal gene initiates female development in germline progenitors. Science. 2011;333(6044):885–888.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Yasue A, Mitsui SN, Watanabe T, et al. Highly efficient targeted mutagenesis in one-cell mouse embryos mediated by the TALEN and CRISPR/Cas systems. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5705.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Brodsky BS, Stanley B. The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Primer. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Eppstein D. Media Theory: Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics. First edition. Falmagne J-C, Ovchinnikov S, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Tóth KF, Pezic D, Stuwe E, et al. The piRNA Pathway Guards the Germline Genome Against Transposable Elements. In: Wilhelm D, Bernard P, editors. Non-coding RNA and the Reproductive System. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2016. p. 51–77.

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 International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Contributing To Dolphin Strandings [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-contributing-dolphin-strandings/.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Tax Abatement. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993. Report No.: HRD-93-27R. .

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Igbojekwe SC. Development of Environmental Friendly Cement for Oil and Gas Well Application [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2014.

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

[1]

Poniewozik J. Trump’s Name Looms in Mind and Speeches. New York Times. 2017 Feb 27;C1.

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	International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Math. Educ. Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0020-739X
ISSN (online)	1464-5211
Scope	Mathematics (miscellaneous) Applied Mathematics Education