How to format your references using the International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education. 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

Hochstrasser, M. (2009). Origin and function of ubiquitin-like proteins. Nature, 458(7237), 422–429.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gosu, V., & Choi, S. (2014). Structural dynamic analysis of apo and ATP-bound IRAK4 kinase. Scientific reports, 4, 5748.

A journal article with 3 authors

Diemand, J., Moore, B., & Stadel, J. (2005). Earth-mass dark-matter haloes as the first structures in the early Universe. Nature, 433(7024), 389–391.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tommasi, A., Gibert, B., Seipold, U., & Mainprice, D. (2001). Anisotropy of thermal diffusivity in the upper mantle. Nature, 411(6839), 783–786.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wiebe, V. J. (2015). Drug Therapy for Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kämäräinen, J.-K., & Koskela, M. (Eds.). (2013). Image Analysis: 18th Scandinavian Conference, SCIA 2013, Espoo, Finland, June 17-20, 2013. Proceedings (Vol. 7944). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cavalieri, F. J., Brüls, O., & Cardona, A. (2014). A Mortar Method Combined with an Augmented Lagrangian Approach for Treatment of Mechanical Contact Problems. In Z. Terze (Ed.), Multibody Dynamics: Computational Methods and Applications (pp. 69–91). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, November 2). Does A Pudgy ‘Dad Bod’ Really Make Men Live Longer? Here’s The Science. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/does-a-pudgy-dad-bod-really-make-men-live-longer-heres-the-science/. Accessed 30 October 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. (2006). Aviation Security: Progress Made to Set Up Program Using Private-Sector Airport Screeners, but More Work Remains (No. GAO-06-166). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Singh, A. (2017). Improving the Usability of Typometric Solutions (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

Greenhouse, L. (2007, April 24). Court Weighs Rights of Passengers When Police Stop Cars. New York Times, p. A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hochstrasser 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Gosu and Choi 2014; Hochstrasser 2009).

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

Two authors: (Gosu and Choi 2014)
Three or more authors: (Tommasi et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education
ISSN (print)	2198-9745
ISSN (online)	2198-9753
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