How to format your references using the International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education citation style

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

Weintraub, K. (2013). Drug development: Releasing the brakes. Nature, 504(7480), S6-8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Long, M. A., & Fee, M. S. (2008). Using temperature to analyse temporal dynamics in the songbird motor pathway. Nature, 456(7219), 189–194.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, S.-Y., Hakoshima, T., & Kitano, K. (2013). Structure of the RecQ C-terminal domain of human Bloom syndrome protein. Scientific reports, 3, 3294.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ji, Q., Norell, M. A., Gao, K. Q., Ji, S. A., & Ren, D. (2001). The distribution of integumentary structures in a feathered dinosaur. Nature, 410(6832), 1084–1088.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Molimard, J. (2016). Experimental Mechanics of Solids and Structures. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Završnik, A. (Ed.). (2016). Drones and Unmanned Aerial Systems: Legal and Social Implications for Security and Surveillance (1st ed. 2016.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Dela Haije, T. C. J., Duits, R., & Tax, C. M. W. (2014). Sharpening Fibers in Diffusion Weighted MRI via Erosion. In C.-F. Westin, A. Vilanova, & B. Burgeth (Eds.), Visualization and Processing of Tensors and Higher Order Descriptors for Multi-Valued Data (pp. 97–126). 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 Science and Mathematics Education.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017, January 26). Volunteers Needed To Find All The Polygonal Ridges Of Mars. 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. (2011). Aviation Security: Progress Made, but Challenges Persist in Meeting the Screening Mandate for Air Cargo (No. GAO-11-413T). 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

Anthony, P. J. (2008). Determining courses of action for educational leaders to achieve Adequate Yearly Progress (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Urbina, I. (2015, July 28). A Renegade Trawler, Chased by Eco-Vigilantes. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weintraub 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Long and Fee 2008; Weintraub 2013).

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

Two authors: (Long and Fee 2008)
Three or more authors: (Ji et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education
Abbreviation	Int. J. Sci. Math. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1571-0068
ISSN (online)	1573-1774
Scope	General Mathematics Education