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

Goodenough, J. B. (2000). Oxide-ion conductors by design. Nature, 404(6780), 821, 823.

A journal article with 2 authors

Volkman, S. K., & Hartl, D. L. (2003). Parasitology. A game of cat and mouth. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5605), 353–354.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schoener, T. W., Spiller, D. A., & Losos, J. B. (2001). Natural restoration of the species-area relation for a lizard after a hurricane. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5546), 1525–1528.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kaliteevski, M. A., Ivanov, K. A., Pozina, G., & Gallant, A. J. (2014). Single and double bosonic stimulation of THz emission in polaritonic systems. Scientific reports, 4, 5444.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chappell, D. (2008). Parris’s Standard Form of Building Contract. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd.

An edited book

Rogers, A. (2010). The Indirect Estimation of Migration: Methods for Dealing with Irregular, Inadequate, and Missing Data. (J. Raymer & J. Little, Eds.) (Vol. 26). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Casas, J., Ferrer, J. L., Garcia, D., Perarnau, J., & Torday, A. (2010). Traffic Simulation with Aimsun. In J. Barceló (Ed.), Fundamentals of Traffic Simulation (pp. 173–232). New York, NY: Springer.

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

Luntz, S. (2014, May 29). The Oldest Organisms In The World. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/oldest-organisms-world-0/. 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. (1993). School-Linked Human Services: A Comprehensive Strategy for Aiding Students at Risk of School Failure (No. HRD-94-21). 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

Huff, J. A. (2010). Interactions of glyphosate and dicamba in controlling key weed species (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Sisario, B. (2016, November 21). ‘We Shall Overcome’ Moves Closer to Copyright Trial. New York Times, p. B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goodenough 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Goodenough 2000; Volkman and Hartl 2003).

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

Two authors: (Volkman and Hartl 2003)
Three or more authors: (Kaliteevski et al. 2014)

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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