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

Moore, M. J. (2005). From birth to death: the complex lives of eukaryotic mRNAs. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5740), 1514–1518.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kosak, S. T., & Groudine, M. (2004). Gene order and dynamic domains. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5696), 644–647.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rutberg, R. L., Hemming, S. R., & Goldstein, S. L. (2000). Reduced North Atlantic Deep Water flux to the glacial Southern Ocean inferred from neodymium isotope ratios. Nature, 405(6789), 935–938.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Abanin, D. A., Morozov, S. V., Ponomarenko, L. A., Gorbachev, R. V., Mayorov, A. S., Katsnelson, M. I., et al. (2011). Giant nonlocality near the Dirac point in graphene. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6027), 328–330.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Graham, A. W., Kirkman, N. C., & Paul, P. M. (2006). Mobile Radio Network Design in the VHF and UHF Bands. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Fischer, M. M., & Nijkamp, P. (Eds.). (2014). Handbook of Regional Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kaski, P., & Östergård, P. R. J. (2006). Isomorph-Free Exhaustive Generation. In P. R. J. Östergård (Ed.), Classification Algorithms for Codes and Designs (pp. 105–143). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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

Andrew, E. (2015, August 17). Mutilated Rhino Treated With Elephant Skin Graft. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (2004). Commercial Aviation: Despite Industry Turmoil, Low-Cost Airlines Are Growing and Profitable (No. GAO-04-837T). 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

Harris, K. R. (2010). The need for social workers in community clinic settings: A grant writing project (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

Pilon, M. (2012, July 30). Far From a Straight Shot to a Milestone Achievement. New York Times, p. D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moore 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Kosak and Groudine 2004; Moore 2005).

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

Two authors: (Kosak and Groudine 2004)
Three or more authors: (Abanin et al. 2011)

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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